The Minister on Interior Miguel Macedo, announced on 28th May 2014 that 5000 civilians are to join the PSP and GNR.
This is to make up for staff loses that have taken placed between 2009 and 2013.
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- ►2021
- ►November
- ►October
- ►September
- Prime Minister's Address to the National following Council of Minister's meeting 23rd September 2021
- Meeting of Infarmed Thursday 16th September 2021
- Interview with José Manuel Duarte Costa, President ANEPC
- Vice Admiral prepares for completion of mission and record of "lessons learned" for the future
- The performance of firefighters in the Algarve, Castro Marim fire questioned by some residents affected
- ►August
- Covid-19 Pandemic reduced birth rates especially in Portugal , Italy and Spain
- Prural Fires - Provisional data shows that burned area more than doubled in two weeks
- Now found Missing Person Truus Zandstra, Lagoa, 18th August 2021
- Rural Fire Saboia, Odeimira, Major Incident Fire page created
- Castro Marim, Algarve Rural Fire Major Incident 16th August 2021
- Rural Fire Risk Monday 16th August 2021
- Rural Fires - FWI map for today Sunday 15th August 2021
- Todays Rural Fire Risk - Sunday 15th August 2021
- ►July
- Press Conference by the Prime Minister following Council of Ministers Meeting
- Meeting of Infarmed 27th July 2021
- Rural Fire Report for the fire at Tojeiro, Marmelete, Monchique 17th - 19th July 2021
- The Profile of a sophisticated arsonist, recently arrested, who used circuit timers connected to light bulbs to start rural fires.
- Press announcement following Council of Ministers meeting 15th July
- Covid-19 Majority of survey respondents satisfied with pandemic management
- Council of Ministers Press Conference Thursday 8th July 2021
- Fewer accidents and deaths on the roads in the first four months of the year compared to 2020
- Vaccination has a huge impact in breaking mortality
- Press Conference following Council of Ministers meeting 1st July
- ►June
- Council of Ministers Press Conference 24th June 2021
- Covid-19: Campaign "Give change to those who need it" starts today in pharmacies
- President of the Rural Fire Agency warns about new tragedies if nothing is done about forest land
- Minister of State and of the Presidency, announcement at end of the Council of Ministers meeting 17th June 2021
- Covid EU Digital Certificate - What is it and how does it work
- Prime Minister confident in the GNR's adaptability for border protection
- IOM warns that migrants must be included in vaccination programs
- Prime Minister Address the Nation concerning deconfinement phases and measures
- ►May
- Duarte da Costa "Combat is not a solution to fires, it is prevention. There are no fool proof systems
- Infarmed meeting Friday 28th May 2021
- Covid-19: Madeira reached record with 3,422 vaccines administered in one day
- Line SNS24 will continue to be free after the pandemic
- EU closes deal with BioNTech / Pfizer for 1.8 billion extra doses of vaccine
- Odemira Public Prosecutions Office has 11 investigations into illegal immigration in the municipality
- More than 205 tons of frozen fish worth 1.2 millions euros sized by GNR in Aveiro
- Prime Minister Addresses the Nation following Council of Ministers Meeting
- ►April
- ►March
- Meeting at Infarmed concerning evolution of Covid-19 -Live updates
- Protecting trees is creating more fire-resistant forests
- Covid-19: Rapid test results must be reported to health authorities
- Covid-19: Easter celebrations at the Sanctuary of Fatima broadcast 'online'
- PSP and GNR detained 911 people during a year of pandemic
- Effective journalism to combat the pandemic
- NEAMWAVE’21 - Exercise to test the alert and degree of readiness in reaction to a tsunami
- Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa - Swearing in and ceremony
- Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa takes office for a second term as President of the Republic,
- Proposal for deconfinement measures arising from Infarmed meeting
- Meeting at Infarmed
- MAI sets minimum numbers of women in security forces
- Portugal climber to scale Everest to fight for gender equality
- Ricardo Jorge Institute points to an end of excess mortality in Portugal
- Communiqué of the Council of Ministers of March 4, 2021 - The integrated management system for rural fires (SGIFR
- There are about 1.5 million legal weapons in Portugal
- Graça Freitas interview with RTP3 concerning current state of Covid-19
- State of Emergency Monitoring Structure Meeting and Security Forces Enforcement Report
- 1969 earthquake. The sea bubbled and the country took to the streets in pyjamas
- Covid-19 Portugal will buy about 38 million vaccines
- ►February
- Mobil Internet Performance is worse in rural areas study shows
- Prime Minister speaks to the country after Council of Ministers Meeting
- Celebrations planned in 2022 to mark the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the first train in Lagos
- United Kingdom and Italy with more impact at the beginning of the pandemic in Portugal
- Official Speech of the President of the Republic
- Infarmed meeting 22nd February 2021
- Covid-19: Project “Neighbours at the window” awarded the Civil Solidarity award
- The dark side of Valentine's Day. More than 2,000 complaints of dating violence in 2020
- INFARMED meeting Lisbon 9th February 2021
- Aid requests to APAV's Safe Internet Line increased 575.49% in 2020
- Pedro Simas says that Portugal may be one of the best in the world to control the third wave
- "I want to give a positive signal, we will have summer"
- Costa praises the mobilization of the private and social health sectors to fight the epidemic
- Covid-19: REINFORCED CONFINEMENT REDUCES CONAGION by 40% IN ONE WEEK
- Vaccination of 900,000 elderly and those with associated pathologies
- Arrested for killing Brazilian citizen after fight in Caldas da Rainha
- 340 thousand people have already received vaccine against Covid-19
- 340 thousand Portuguese have already received vaccine against Covid-19
- ►January
- STATEMENT BY THE STATE AND PRESIDENCY MINISTER MARIANA VIERA DA SILVA
- COVID-19. FALSE VACCINES FOR SALE ON THE INTERNET ARE A GREAT HEALTH RISK UN WARNS
- FIRST PREGNANT WOMAN IN PORTUGAL HAVING TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID-19 – 9 MONTHS LATER AFTER BIRTH
- European recovery must be based on the drivers of climate and digital transitions
- Fighting the pandemic “is a very tough marathon”
- PRIME MINISTER ANNOUNCES REVISED STATE OF EMERGENCY MEASURES
- Covid-19: Situation "absolutely unsustainable" in healthcare - Public Health Doctors
- Twelve differences between confinement compared to March last year
- PRIME MINISTERS ADDRESS TO THE NATION EXTENSION OF STATE OF EMERGENCY
- Meeting of experts at Infarmed Tuesday 12th January 2021
- COVID-19 INSA Report shows rapid increase in R (t) trends in Portugal
- PRIME MINISTERS ADDRESS TO THE NATION
- The ten numbers of the last state of emergency. From arrests to covid-19 in schools
- Covid-19: Four Portuguese scientists clarify any doubts about vaccines in videos
- British UN diplomat who devised peacekeeping missions dies at 101
- Government of Madeira adopts more restrictive measures to contain an increase in cases
- Covid-19: Increased demand for yoga, pilates, meditation and training with outdoor PT
- Prime Minister New Year's Message
- ►2020
- ►December
- Christmas message from the Prime Minister
- WE ARE THE FIRST LINE” – EXPERIENCES OF THOSE OPERATING THE SNS 24 CALL CENTRE IN PORTUGAL DURING COVID-19
- On December 25, 1914, World War I stopped for a football game. They called it the Christmas Truce (and Duarte Gomes sees hope in it)
- Christmas message from the President of the Republic
- Beat the pandemic and tiredness with one call at a time
- Prime Minister Announces new Measures New Year Period
- Covid-19. "The vaccine came more quickly, but no shortcuts were taken." Infarmed Director explains how to save time
- Covid-19: Task force coordinator warns that “it would be a huge mistake” to make vaccine mandatory
- DGS ADVICE TO HAVE A SAFE CHRISTMAS
- This bracelet that says "I'm Here" and helps elderly return home.
- Vaccine authorizations will have all safeguards
- Covid-19: Portuguese schedule tests before Christmas to be able to be with the family
- COVID-19: VACCINATION STARTS IN JANUARY, A DAY OR TWO AFTER ARRIVING IN PORTUGAL
- Crime of abandoning animals triggers with pandemic
- European visa system changes after agreement between Council and European Parliament
- PRIME MINISTER’S ADDRESS TO THE NATION CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR PERIODS
- President of the Republic Addresses the Nation
- Presentation of the vaccination plan for Covid-19 by Minister of Health
- Portugal Cov-19 Vaccination Plan unveiled
- Covid-19 Infarmed meeting underway
- Portugal to buy 22 million vaccines worth 200 million euros
- Money transfers to voluntary fire brigade associations
- PUBLIC HOLIDAY 1ST DECEMBER – BUT DO YOU KNOW WHY?
- Electricity VAT falls on December 1 to 5.2 million contracts
- ►November
- Covid-19: Tighter border controls have not been effective in containing the virus
- Covid-19: Portugal will have “very low levels” of new cases if restrictions are maintained
- Algarve, Madeira and Lisbon win World Travel Awards
- Covid-19. TASK FORCE CREATED BY THE GOVERNMENT HAS 30 DAYS TO DEFINE VACCINATION PLAN FOR PORTUGAL
- Technology is fundamental for decision support and to create resiliant communities against fires
- International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
- GNR AND PSP LAUNCH ALERT CAMPAIGN ON TUESDAY TO REDUCE PEDESTRIAN ROAD ACCIDENTS
- Address to the Nation by the Prime Minister - State of Emergency measures
- GOVERNMENT TO ANNOUNCE NEW MEASURES TO COMBAT THE PANDEMIC AT 1800 hrs
- Portugal is prepared to buy around 16 million doses of three vaccines against covid-19
- Covid-19: Study reveals that only 25% of Population keep recommended distance
- Matters raised by experts at Infarmed meeting on 10th November
- FROM NORTH TO SOUTH: ALMOST DESERTED STREETS ON FIRST SATURDAY WITH A 1300 HRS CURFEW
- The Prime Minister spoke out at the end of a Council of Ministers that lasted over eight hours.
- State of Emergency - Measures announced by Prime Minister
- Elderly people in isolation situations referenced by GNR rises to over 42 thousand
- Covid-19: Marcelo asks to avoid "an aggravated December" with "more drastic restrictions"
- Explanatory note to State of Emergency
- Parliament Authorises President to Declare State of Emergency
- Confinement excluded in the new state of emergency
- Government creates network of back-up support structures
- ►October
- PRIME MINISTER ADDRESS TO THE NATIONAL AFTER THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS METTING
- Council of Ministers meets today to decide new measures to control the pandemic
- Travel Restrictions between municipalities 00.00 hrs October 30th to 0600 hrs November 3rd, 2020
- Covid-19: CIVIL PROTECTION COMMISSION PORTO PROPOSES CURFEW FOR DISTRICT
- Covid-19 Hospitalisations and ICU Forecast by Minister of Health
- Lessons for the future that DGS learned from Formula 1 - "We have to restrict events a lot"
- Covid-19 Rapid Testing Starts on 9th November
- Crime Prevention and Enforcement Report 26th October 2020
- Fortnightly Crime Prevention and Enforcement Report 26th October 2020
- Government confirms maximum capacity of 27,500 people at the Portuguese F1 GP
- Covid-19 Prime Minister - Return to State of Emergency not on the table
- PORTUGAL BUDGET PROPOSAL TO BE PASSED TO PARLIAMENT TODAY
- Portugal and Spain approve common border strategy
- Fortnightly Crime Prevention and enforcement Report
- SPANISH POLICE DISMANTLE NETWORK THAT DISTRIBUTED PAEDOPHILE MATERIAL FROM PORTUGAL
- The water reserves in the Algarve are sufficient to ensure public supply
- Fire data during the Critical Fire Period 2020
- Seventeen migrants from the group that landed in the Algarve flee from barracks in Tavira - SEF
- ►September
- Over half of Portuguese believe pandemic hindered access to healthcare survey reveals
- portuguese fought in a very courageouse and disciplined way
- PORTUGUESE FOUGHT IN A VERY COURAGEOUSE AND DISCIPLINED WAY” EVALUATES PRESIDENT OF EUROPEAN COMMISISSON
- ECDC places Portugal in Moderate Risk category
- Government extends the term of the moratorium on credit to families and companies ending on March 31, until another six months, until September 30, 2021.
- Government rejects to stopping the country again
- Addressing the shortage of water in the Algarve
- Marcelo praises health professionals and National Health Service marking 41 years
- GNR starts operation to inspect dangerous goods transport
- Council of Ministers - Measures Presented by the Prime Minister
- COUNCIL OF MINISTERS MEETING TODAY TO DETERMINE SITUATION OF CONTINGENCY MEASURE TOBE INTROFUCED 15TH SEPTEMBER
- TWELVE THOUSAND PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO KNOW IF THEY ALREADY HAD COVID-19
- Covid-19: Epidemic situation has worsened in Portugal since mid-August
- GNR operation Travelling Safely concludes today
- Marcelo expected 100 cases of covid-19 or less per day in early September
- Safe Communities Crime Prevention and Enforcement Report 4th September 2020
- ►August
- Peniche - 21 infractions detected in inspection of illegal camping
- NEW E-GATES AT FARO AIRPORT SPEED UP IMMIGRATION PROCESSING TIMES
- 20% of arsonists detained this year were repeat offenders. What is failing in control?
- MEDAL FOR HERO DOG KUNO WHO SAVED SOLDIERS LIVES IN AFGAHANISTAN
- The entire country will enter a contingency state starting on September 15.
- Art for fire prevention
- ANALYSIS WEATHER CONDITION INTO CAUSE OF FIRE IN SERRA DA LOUSA ON 11TH JULY RESULTING IN DEATH OF A FIREFIGHTER
- Large commercial area Intermarché, in Leiria, was closed after two positive cases of covid-19 were detected,
- Study reveals inaccuracies in databases about new coronavirus
- “TOO GOOD TO GO APP” PREVENTS 100,000 MEALS FROM BEING WASTED SINCE OCTOBER
- PSP "ready" to host "atypical" Champions League finals
- Covid-19: Minister of Health shares WHO reservations about Russian vaccine
- Return of Praça da Fruta to the center of Caldas da Rainha divides sellers and buyers
- Air traffic decreased by 91% in April to June 2020
- Portugal Rural Fire situation at 1730 hrs
- Bathing banned at Nazaré. Leiria due to water quality
- More deaths due to heat but are not new - DGS
- ►July
- Road accidents are the main cause of death of firefighters in the attack on fires
- Covid-19: MAI - 19 Parishes in Lisbon to move from a situation of calamity to same as level as remainder of Lisbon Metropolitan area REST OF LISBON METRPOLITAN AREA
- European Commission giving satellite support to fire in Oleiros
- Maximum penalty for person found guilty of homicide
- Nationality of Portuguese grandchildren and spouses simplified and "more just" by law approved today
- Maximum penalty for homicide of young man found under burning car
- Safe Communities Portugal launches website to serve Silver Coast residents
- Fires: About 150 counties in 14 continent districts at maximum risk
- Five health professionals arrested for fraud and spread of disease
- Epidemiologist: “It is not inevitable that vacations bring an increase in cases” of Covid-19
- Fires: Collision with power lines caused helicopter crash in Valongo - report
- Weekly Crime Prevention and Enforcement report 10th July 2020
- Situation of Calamity likely to remain in 19 parishes in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area - Costa
- Young people are not immune to complications. "Covid parties are irresponsible and have consequences”
- Covid-19: It is necessary to "look forward and fight" for Algarve tourism
- County lines gangs disguised drug couriers as nurses during coronavirus lockdown
- Marcelo recalls that Portugal has already supported the United Kingdom in difficult times
- Weekly Crime Report ending 3rd July 2020
- ►June
- Covid-19: EU reopens borders to 15 countries, USA and Brazil still excluded
- Portugal and Spain signal reopening of border on Wednesday
- PRIME MINISTER UNVEILS NEW MEASURES FOLLOWING THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS MEETING
- President speaks after the meeting with experts to assess the epidemiological situation of covid-19 in Portugal, at Infarmed.
- 2019 crime reports shows slight increases in violent and overall crime compared to 2018
- RURAL FIRE NEAR VILARINHA, BORDEIRA, ALJEZUR
- Weekly crime prevention and enforcement report 19th June
- Government today approved a one-month extension of the simplified lay-off, until the end of July,
- Marking three years since the Pedrógão Grande fire that caused 66 deaths
- Two of the people infected with covid-19 following an illegal party in Lagos are hospitalised
- Ban on Flights to and from outside of EU extended to last day of June
- Strike at CTT starts at midnight at central post offices
- Weekly Crime Prevention and Enforcement Report 11th June 2020
- Outdoor Swimming pools - Government imposes infection prevention and control procedures.
- May was the hottest in the last 89 years,
- Brussels recommends maintaining, until July 1, the restrictions on non-essential flights to countries outside the European Union.
- PRIME MINISTER ASSURES THAT NATIONAL AIRPORTS ARE READY FOR RESUMPTION OF TRAFFIC
- Mayor of Elvas pleased with Spain's announcement of reopening borders
- Weekly Crime Prevention and Enforcement Report 4th June 2020
- Portuguese Environment Agency identifies beach capacities
- Minister of Internal Administration intends to keep border controls with Spain for time being
- GNR starts monitoring and enforcement action in respect on non-compliance of cleaning land
- Reopening of Citizens stores
- Earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 on the Richter scale felt early this morning in São Miguel Azores
- ►May
- Community religious ceremonies return today
- PRIME MINISTER ANNOUNCES THIRD PHASE OF DE-CONFINEMENT
- Weekly Crime Prevention and Enforcement Report
- Portugual - Spain Border crossings
- Prime Minister's Statement on the Economic and Social Stabilisation Program 27th May
- Experts and politicians meet today to analyse the epidemiological situation of covid-19
- Festivals and similar events may take place
- Covid-19 Misleading advertisements on disinfectans and masks
- SEF announces simplified measures for granting and renewal of foreign citizen residence permits
- Trial of 12 people accused of being involved in the theft of 55 Glock weapon starts 8th June
- A Day in the Life of Safe Communities Portugal
- Reopening of gyms
- Covid -19 ASAE seize on average around two thousand counterfeit face masks per day
- Coronavirus: Quarantine plans for UK arrivals unveiled
- Covid Confirmed cases rate by population
- Campsites begin to open in the Algarve
- INEM gives overview if its performance in the context of the pandemic.
- Weekly Crime prevention and enforcement Report 22nd May 2020
- Covid-19 Self Protection Guide for fire fighting operatives
- Data Protection Commission warns that schools must comply with temperature measurement rules
- Blood donations during Covid-19
- Fire Risk this year worrying according to the Technical Observatory
- Prime minister on the situation concerning and nightclubs
- FAQ from DGS about re-opening of Establishments
- BIG NEWS!
- Azores moves forward with alternative arrangements for arriving passengers
- Re-opening of campsites, caravan sites and motorhome service areas
- Prime Minister addresses the nation on the conditions for reopening activities
- Covid-19: Representatives of Religious denominations and government agree rules on restarting religious activity
- Return to school will be done safely
- IKEA Plans to open all its stores on 1st June
- Fire-fighting resources are reinforced with simultaneous challenge of response to covid-19
- “Clean & Safe” seal to be extended to catering establishments that may require it
- Safe Communities weekly crime prevention and enforcement report 14th May 2020
- Covid-19: Politicians and experts assess the situation before the second phase of easing of restrictions
- Land border controls between Portugal and Spain extended until 15th June
- Four major measures to mitigate possible reduction in operational numbers in fighting fires
- COVID-19 Government reports 3183 Health workers infected
- Schools have protective equipment to restart face-to-face classes
- First step towards implementing economic recovery efforts
- Ryanair re-evaluating its operations in Portugal
- Covid-19 Safety in Day care centres
- Professional students will have regional exams to access higher education
- GNR Operation operation “Fátima at home”
- GUIDANCE ISSUED TO THE CONDITIONS OF REOPENING OF FOOD AND BEVERAGE ESTABLISHMENTS
- Covid-19: Rime Minister announces more support for Managing Partners and independent workers
- Land Border between Portugal and Spain to remain closed after 14th May
- HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR PRESIDENT - DAVID THOMAS, 70 YEARS TODAY
- UNESCO ratifies the 5th of May as World Day of the Portuguese Language
- THANK YOU FOR YOUR DONATIONS!
- Use of the mask in public transport “is essential to protect ourselves and others”
- Covid-19: Fátima Sanctuary asks pilgrims to avoid traveling to the site on the 12th and 13th May
- PRIME MINISTER ANNOUNCES 80% NON-REPAYABLE SUPPORT FOR MICRO-ENTERPRISES
- Clinics and dentists to resume activity on 4th May
- ARS Algarve prepares for possible second outbreak in winter
- ►April
- Announcement of State of Calamity by the Prime Minister
- Armed Forces start cleaning operations in schools
- One-third of health professionals do not perform daily self-monitoring
- GNR identifies nearly 24 thousand situations for failure to clean land
- Rural Fire Prevention - Deadline today to clean land
- GOVERNMENT PLAN FOR A PHASED RE-OPENING OF THE ECONOMY
- President and Prime Minister Meeting ahead of tomorrow's Council of Minister's meeting
- Covid-19: Patients should be aware of adverse drug effects - Infarmed
- Crime has halved since the covid-19 pandemic began,
- STATE OF EMERGENCY ENDS 2ND MAY MIDNIGHT.
- "CLEAN AND SAFE" SEAL - Turismo de Portugal
- 25th April Prime Minister's Address to the Nation
- 25TH APRIL ADDRESS TO THE NATION BY PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC
- Communiqué of the Council of Ministers of April 23rd, 2020 Domestic Violence
- Portugal has carried out over 300,000 covid - 19 tests
- Road accidents fall by more than 70% in the first 30 days of the state of emergency,
- Covid-19: Beaches with a(limited) maximum capacity of bathers introduced to comply with social distancing rules.
- FREE LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR CITIZENS
- Portuguese Sign Language available those with impaired hearing through SNS24
- COVID -19 OBTAINING THE CORRECT DETAILED INFORMATION
- Military discloses security measures for when schools reopen
- MENTAL HEALTH INFORMATION AND ADVICE ON LINE
- Covid-19: About 700,000 items protective equipment sent to care homes - Government
- DGS SITUATION REPORT 19TH APRIL – 1300 HRS
- MESSAGE TO THE FOREIGN COMMUNITY FROM SCP
- Prime Minister states intention to announce “calendar and program of progressive reduction in measures”
- New traffic signs and signals
- President enacts State of Emergency law and Communiqué of the Council of Ministers of April 17, 2020
- GUIDE TO THE TYPES AND WEARING OF FACE MASKS
- PRIME MINISTER’S PRIORITY FOR NEXT 15 DAYS WHAT NEEDS TO COMMENCE IN MAY
- President of the Republic Statement to the Nation
- ASSEMBLY OF THE REPUBLIC APPROVES NEW EXTENSION OF STATE OF EMERGENCY UNTIL 2ND MAY
- Fires: Combat device counts about 12 thousand operatives and 60 aerial means
- State of Emergency foresees gradual lifting of restrictions
- President decides today and parliament votes extension of state of emergency
- STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT ON STATE OF EMERGENCY
- Covid-19: Costa stresses that reopening of economic activities must be prudent and with social conditions of trust
- Covid-19: Social masks will be cotton and/or polyester - Infarmed
- Covid-19: DGS endorses wearing of masks by all people in closed spaces.
- Prime Minister Interview with Radio Observador on State of Emergency issues
- Use of masks - guidance issued by the Director General of Health
- COMMUNITY SUPPORT COVID-19 - list for volunteering
- EASTER DAY MESSAGE FROM DAVID THOMAS
- ARS ALGARVE OPENS 3 DEDICATED AREAS IN PORTIMÃO, OLHÃO AND TAVIRA AND CREATES NETWORK OF 13 COVID-19 CONVENTIONAL HARVEST STATIONS, DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT THE ALGARVE
- Spanish Government extends the controls at the land borders with France and Portugal for another 14 days
- Covid-19: Infarmed has requested an increase in the production of drugs for controlled use and reserve stock.
- Covid-19: Marcelo disapproves "false news" and "unjustified alarmism" about pardons.
- President of the Republic of Portugal speaks to the country
- PRIME MINISTER SPEAKS ABOUT STATE OF EMERGENCY
- Prime Minister Statement on Schools
- GNR ANNOUNCEMENTS – FROM PATROL VEHICLES
- EASTER PERIOD RESTRICTIONS - KNOWING THE BOUNDARIES!
- PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC PREDICTS “LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL IN MAY
- COVID-19: AMAL ensures road transport in the Algarve
- Statement by President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
- New useful guides - several languages
- Letter of gratitute - to you and me
- Message from SCP President
- Article 6 Limitation on movement during the Easter period
- Minister of Health says fight against outbreak is a long marathon
- Only an even more determined effort will allow to consolidate positive evolution
- Q and A RENEWED STATE OF E. LAW DURING EASTER AND MORE
- WARNING OVER USE OF VIDEO SURVEILLANCE IN PUBLIC PLACES IN CONTEXT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC
- Latest news from The President of the Republic
- NEW MEASURES ANNOUNCED BY PM AT 1840 HRS
- PARLIAMENT APPROVES EXTENSION OF STATE EMERGENCY
- SITUATION REPORT PORTUGAL 2nd April
- VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO HELP OUR TEAM WITH COVID-19
- GOVERNMENT GIVES FAVOURABLE OPINION TO RENEWAL OF STATE OF EMERGENCY
- Important: How to understand and comply "State of Emergency"
- Health professionals are the crown jewel of the National Health Service (SNS)
- ►March
- ►February
- Prime Minister announces 11 million Euros for rural fire breaks
- Civil Protection Day Celebrations
- One Portuguese among 47 detained in Spain for drug trafficking
- Money laundering: Real estate required to report business every three months
- GNR Operation detects over 800 drivers for improper use of mobile phones
- LISBON and ÉVORA – SEVEN ARRESTED BY GNR FOR NEARLY 200 ROBBERIES AND THEFTS
- Psychological aggression is the most frequent acts of violence in dating - study
- Azores archipelago should have working weather radar on Terceira island,
- New Rural Fire Plan aims to reduce burned areas by half by 2030
- Assessment of the biggest fire of 2019 points to flaw in the mobilization of air assets
- ►January
- Nurse battles Coronavirus on the Front Line
- Coronavirus 2019-nCoV EDEC Risk Assessment 26th January
- CORONAVIRUS Reducing exposure and reducing transmission of virus
- CORONAVIRUS 2019-nCoV SITREP 27TH JANUARY.
- New Coronavirus - Situation 26th January 0800 hrs
- Toll Reduction on A22 Planned
- RISK OF CONTAGION OF CORONVIRUS IN EUROPEAN UNION IS ALREADY MODERATE
- Communique by Director General Health Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) 21st January 2020
- New Coronavirus in China - Number of Deaths Double
- Outbreak or Respiratory Disease in Wuhan China
- P SP, GNR and SEF received over 12 thousand weapons and close to 16 thousand equipment since 2017
- Resolution of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of Azores No. 1/2020 / A
- Tridente” submarine goes on “discreet” mission to combat drug and human trafficking
- Gibraltar – Police arrest nearly 50 people in massive migrant smuggling operation
- Parliament approves two votes of condolence for victims of domestic violence
- Seven persons detained for trafficking in 3.5 tonnes of hashish by sea
- INEM - 1.3 million calls received in 2019
- Send bushfire donations only to licensed charities to avoid being scammed
- Police organize national meeting today to decide January 21 protests
- Re-evaluation of magnitude of 1755 Lisbon Earthquake
- Despite rain one third of country still in drought
- Meeting between Secretary of State for Internal Administration and Safe Communities Portugal
- ALGARVE AND ALMODOVAR AMONG PLACES MOST AFFECTED BY FLU OUTBREAK
- ►December
- ►2019
- ►December
- International Pickpocket arrested after thefts in Lisbon
- Road Safety Operation Natal ends with fewer deaths and injuries but more accidents
- Coimbra "Critical Flood Situation" - Mondego River level/Flow Rate above safety level
- Depression Elsa Latest Update 1700 hrs
- GNR reinforces today patrol on the roads under the "Christmas and New Year" operation
- Depression Elsa 20th December 0900 hrs - 5400 occurrences recorded
- Depression Elsa - Effects on Transportation
- PSP seized 729 illegal firearms in Madeira
- GNR seizes 68 animals and records 10 crimes of abuse and neglect
- CONSUMER PROTECTION ADVISES AGAINST THE USE OF THREE LIPSTICKS ON SAFETY GROUNDS
- New Zealand Volcano latest
- Fewer road deaths but more accidents and serious injuries compared to 2018
- Man dies after being hit by machine in Madeira
- Doctors in Spain revive British woman after six-hour cardiac arrest
- MADEIRA – FLIGHT CANCELLATIONS DUE TO HIGH WINDS
- Government says over 90% of municipalities have forest fire protection plans
- London attack shows EU-UK cooperation 'essential
- Fires: Castelo Branco district without re-ignitions or false alarms in 2019
- PORTUGAL TO CO-CHAIR MINISTERIAL COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY
- Municipalities claim changes in Civil Protection result in better articulation
- ►November
- Portugal is the best destination in the world and wins 13 tourism 'Oscars'
- Porto - PSP confirms detention of a British national and identification of 16 Belgians after clashes that caused "several injured
- Lisbon – PSP crackdown of pickpockets – 305 detained so far this year
- European Commission forcing Portugal to change taxes on imported used cars
- Deco warns: choose from Amazon, Booking, or TripAdvisor reviews? May be false
- Funchal - Christmas Lights Vandalised
- APAV supported over 43,000 victims of domestic violence in five years
- Dog packs alarm Sines population and force establishment of collection centre
- PJ dismantles suspected criminal group responsible for 30 robberies after arrests made in Vila Nova de Gaia
- Minister highlights "responsible unionism" of PSP and GNR demonstration
- Older people over 75 years old are those who mostly resort to emergency care for domestic accidents
- PSP Lisbon Metropolitan Command reports of 238 cases of police assaulted this year
- PSP Lisbon Metropolitan Command reports of 238 cases of police assaulted this year
- Portugal calls on Portuguese Students in Hong Kong to submit personal data for support if required
- More than 1,200 signs placed around critical quarries
- Woman jailed for 18 months for making illegal claims worth £70,000
- Person detained by PSP for crime of “mistreatment of a pet animal”
- MAI willing to "solve police problems", but promises do not cancel planned demonstration
- Judicial Police dismantled organization that recruited women for convenience marriages
- PSP seize weapons and drugs in operation in Lisbon neighbourhoods
- Portugal: Diesel crisis ends in Flores, Corvo
- A Terra Treme - National Seismic Risk Awareness Exercise November 15 at 11:15 pm
- World Tsunami Day
- Volunteer Bombeiros attacked at Borba Fire Station
- ►October
- Roads with new road signs and information from April 2020
- Infarmed suspends two distributors for illegal export and serious irregularities
- New system will signal potential victims and perpetrators of domestic violence
- Two Firefighters in court for causing fires
- Arrested in Algarve one of the most prolific paedophiles of the Catholic Church
- Government wants to make changes to SEF and revise "gold visas"
- One third of this year's fires were caused by uncontrolled extensive burning and burning cut and piled debris
- PSP Azores seizes 30 Kgs of Hashish and detains two persons for drug trafficking
- GNR seized 270 kilos of bivalves in Olhão and Quarteira
- GNR recovers stolen sacred art piece 21 years ago
- Portuguese military force ambushed in Central African Republic
- Hurricane Lorenzo reaches the Azores
- Eighty one arrests in investigation targeting Spanish cocaine trafficking group
- Tancos Military Weapons theft case: Former Director of the Military Judicial Police Luis Vieira will ask to make a pre-trial statement
- Azores prepares for arrival of Hurricane Lorenzo
- ►September
- GOVERNO PRORROGA PERÍODO CRÍTICO DE INCÊNDIOS
- Government Extends Critical Fire Period unitil 10th October 2019
- Azores Regional Government prepares the necessary measures to face Hurricane Lorenzo
- Four GNR military defendants accused of Tancos in disciplinary proceedings opened by IGAI
- PSP detain two persons for using counterfeit 100 Euro bank notes
- Four arrested for international drug trafficking at Lisbon airport
- Secretary of State for Civil Protection Resigns from office
- São Miguel Island - Person identifies in connection with the theft of gold items from a resident
- Some 7000 operative dealt with 25 major fires on 13th and 14th September
- Safe Communities Recognized as a Civil Protection Volunteer Organisation
- Rural Fires - 2019 Decrease in the number of people arrested for Arson
- Joint Statement from the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development
- GNR air patrol detects illegal logging of trees in forest areas
- PJ dismantles one of Europe's largest counterfeit currency networks
- RED FIRE WARNING ALERT DECLARED BY GOVERNMENT IN 13 DISTRICTS
- Over 500 complaints of Asian Wasp so far this year.
- 80 bogus violent crime reports since 2018 in Odivelas and Loures
- ►August
- Kidnapped in Cascais. The whole story of the scheme that cheated thousands of Chinese
- Ukrainian Couple arrested in Lisbon for leaving 3-year-old daughter alone for 14 hours at home
- Cascais - Two Chinese nationals detained for trafficking, kidnapping and coercion
- Taiwan and Portugal dismantle telephone fraud in Cascais
- UK Action Fraud under investigation: victims misled and mocked as police fail to investigate
- Ryan Air strike enters its first day
- Allegations of SEF services being sold on the internet.
- HAZARDOUS GOODS VEHICLE DRIVERS STRIKE CALLED OFF
- Seven fishermen saved after four days drifting in Madeira
- Spanish and Portuguese police dismantle cocaine trafficking network
- Eleven Russians accused of drug trafficking and criminal association in Cape Verde's biggest drug bust
- Hazardous vehicles drive’ strike
- Some Tips During the Fuel Crisis
- ANTRAM ACCUSES DRIVERS UNIONS OF FAILING DEADLINE TO ASSIGN WORKERS TO ENSURE MINIMUM FUEL DELIVERIES ARE MET
- Algarve - Alert Situation Statement | Energy Crisis
- Press Release - Alert Situation Statement Energy Crisis
- Minister of Internal Administration ensures that emergency network will respond to priority state functions
- Fuel Rationing during drivers strike
- Safety concerning the storage and transportation of Jerry Cans containing fuel
- Bomb Hoax forces temporary closure Mar Shopping Algarve
- CURRENT SUPPLIES IN FUEL STATIONS - VOST WEBSITE AND APP PROVIDES UPDATES
- GOVERNMENT AID TO BE PROVIDED TO DAMAGED FARMS FOLLOWING FIRES IN MAÇÃO AND VILA DA REI
- Major rural fire near Tomar, Santarem
- Air Force tests sensors that can help with firefighting
- More than 60 military will reinforce fire prevention surveillance in nine districts starting Friday
- Safe Village – Safe People – the Question of flammable collars
- ►July
- GNR detect drivers of heavy passenger vehicles carrying children without a driving licence
- Rising temperatures take almost 100 military personnel to the ground
- Bar Association against agreement on handing over fugitive offenders to Macao
- Infrastructures of Portugal launches application to reduce animal deaths on roads
- "Flee from the Algarve confusion". The controversial campaign of Faro airport
- Madeira - Woman murdered in Jardim do Mar
- Minister of Internal Administration - Fires should not serve as pre-election conflict
- Assistant to the Secretary of State for Civil Protection resigns
- Police to ensure security at key points during hauliers strike
- Rural Fire - Smoke Collars
- Rural Fires - Area burned this year more than doubles since 15th July
- Paragliding death in Porto do Cruz, Madeira
- MINISTER OF INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION OPENS URGENT INQUIRY INTO SMOKE – FREE COLLARS
- NEPC Clarification over the issue of face masks
- Fires in Castelo Branco – 20th July 2019
- GNR Presidential Squad 20th Anniversary Ceremony
- Arrest of a suspect for the attempted murder of two GNR military personnel
- Funchal - Economic and financial crime - Operation "Pegasus"
- Morrocan sentenced in Lisbon to 12 years for two terrorist crimes
- Brussels regrets lack of support for Portugal against the fires of 2017
- Summer as we know it has yet to arrive
- Meeting of the National Commission for Civil Protection
- Secretary of State for Internal Administration and President Safe Communities Portugal sign protocol
- Portugal: Five doctors among 11 detainees in investigation into health fraud
- Lack of operators at INEM reduce average 112 answer times in June.
- ►June
- Portugal enters the Critical Fire period
- Alentejo, Algarve and Andalusia unite in project to combat forest fires
- Foreigners increase to nearly 5% of Portugal's population
- The Judicial Police arrested 14 people for qualified tax fraud
- Portugal spared extreme hot weather
- Government announces Safe Summer Program for the Algarve
- Person arrested in connection with investigation into terrorist crimes
- “Safe Summer” Display at Mar Shopping, Loulé
- It is a mistake to put heavy fighter aircraft in Castelo Branco
- Parliament approves: throwing cigarette buts on the ground will result in a fine
- Thirty Six persons tried for ATM explosions and money laundering
- Portugal regains 3rd place as world’s most peaceful country.
- Training for the security forces for appropriate intervention with LGBTI people
- AGIF considers that Portugal remains "very vulnerable to the risk of fires"
- More dead and injured in road accidents in the first five months of the year
- President of Assembly of Republic proposes to dedicate June 17 as National Day in Memory of Victims of Fires
- Programa Estou Aqui! ® I'm Here Child Safety Program
- US State Department begins social media screening for nearly all visa applications.
- ►May
- Rural Fires. Municipalities have until the end of the day to clear land from non-compliant landowners
- Portugal Civil Protection Exercise Cascade 2019
- Portugal: Company uses satellite images to find environmental crimes
- Comunicado Conjunto do Ministério da Administração Interna e do Ministério da Agricultura, Florestas e Desenvolvimento Rural
- Portugal Mainland placed on Rural Fire Alert
- Judicial Police Annual Dug Report 2018 - Cocaine
- A very hot summer forecasted
- Twenty two arrested in the dismantling of a major crime group who amassed €680 million from their criminal activities
- Portugal: Police arrest 17 Hells Angels
- Person detained with almost two million smuggled cigarettes seized in Montalegre
- PSP of Lisbon makes 53 arrests, 39 related to football celebrations
- Person arrested caught in the act of setting fire to a forest in Castelo Branco
- New law imposes a maximum of 25 weapons on hunters
- Portugal: Deaths from Domestic violence worryingly high - APAV
- Funchal - Person fined two thousand euros for having telephone in "Flight Mode" in the aircraft
- Porto – Seven arrested in thee million Euro, Portugal 2020 Program Fraud.
- Prime Minister calls for 'national mobilization' for cleaner and safer forest
- 50,000 litres of fake Extra Virgin Olive Oil seized from “Well Oiled Gang”
- Experts gather for conference on international pickpocketing gangs
- Comunicado Conjunto do Ministério da Administração Interna e do Ministério da Agricultura, Florestas e Desenvolvimento Rural
- Conferência Turismo – Responder aos efeitos das alterações climáticas e dos eventos de elevado impacto
- Major Judicial Police operation: 11 arrested for money laundering, fraud and fraud against the state
- Conference Tourism – Responding to the effects of Climate change and High Impact Events
- ►April
- Judicial police detain a man for committing felonies of Qualified Homicide, Arson and Desecration of Corpse
- FUEL DELIVERY STRIKE AFFECTING AIRPORTS AND TRANSPORTATION
- 16 Properties seized in Spain in international anti-money laundering operation
- Seminar - Safe Tourist Destination Algarve - Portimão – 10th April 2019 - Speech by President Safe communities Portugal
- Porto- Nine arrested and 21 constituted defendants for Tax Fraud, Criminal Association and illicit exploitation of on-line gambling
- Portuguese Mission of Civil Protection returns from mission in Mozambique
- 2019 - More operational, vehicles and aircraft to fight fires announced
- Safe Holidays - Prevention and Protection Leaflet against Rural Fires
- Seizure of firearms contributes to an 8.6% fall in violent crime
- ►March
- Brexit promotes reinforcement of SEF inspectors at Lisbon, Faro and Funchal airports
- Person wanted in Germany detained by SEF at Porto airport
- Rural Fire Warning: preventive measures and operational deployments
- ANPC sends Joint Operational Force to Mozambique
- Arrest for Television "Card sharing"
- Portuguese citizen wins top UK nursing award
- PSP arrested more than 500 people in the Safe Carnival operation
- Portugal in fourth place in the seizure of hashish in Europe
- Government released on 28th February 2019, The Centre for Studies on Forest Fires Report into the Fires that resulted in the death of 51 people in October 2017
- GNR Road Safety Operation "Carnival 2019"
- Judicial police detain man for drug trafficking
- GNR detains couple for issuing fake animal vaccinate certificates and 48 breeding dogs in Tavira
- ►February
- Funchal - Judicial Police arrest fire suspect
- Funchal - Detention of suspect in compliance with European Arrest Warrant
- Suspects responsible for 300 thefts from vehicles identified by GNR
- Porto – Major Operation results in 15 arrests and narcotics worth one hundred thousand euros seized
- Nearly 300 cars disappear after Asia Pacific Summit
- Conference on urban security brings together experts in Coimbra
- GNR Operation "Violence is not an option"
- Nineteen arrested in France and Italy in Multi Million Gold Laundering Operation
- OPERATION KRYPTONITE – JUDICIAL POLICE DETAIN FIVE FOREIGNERS FOR MONEY LAUNDERING
- Leiria - Arrested for Sexual Abuse of a Person Unable to Resist and Sexual Abuse of Children
- Fire in Garachico, Funchal
- Two "Hells Angels" detained by the PJ in the Algarve
- Eleven detained by PJ in high quality drugs seizure on high seas
- ►January
- GNR seize 12 tonnes of tobacco
- PortugalChama Portugal Calls campaign - Rural Fire Prevention and Protection Launched
- Police Video Cameras on Uniforms
- Complaints against police actions at a maximum of seven years
- Minister of Internal Affairs says police cameras on uniforms under consideration
- PJ inspectors strike on first week of February
- Prime Minister presided over the installation of the Agency for the Integrated Management of Rural Fire
- Demonstration on behalf of the District of Jamaica causes disturbances in the Baixa de Lisboa
- "Molotov cocktails" thrown at PSP squadron building at Bela Vista - Cars burned in Odivelas
- Results of the National Operation railway and Metropolitan transport
- Criminal gang recruiting Portuguese women into sham marriages dismantled
- Minister assures that firefighters will have "reinforced role" in Civil Protection
- Judicial Police Macau holds 37 suspects in organized illegal money collection scheme
- Judicial Police holds three men for money laundering resulting from computer fraud
- PSP and firefighters prevent attempted suicide
- PSP Lisbon Metropolitan District – Road Safety Anti- Speeding operation
- Crime drops in 2018 – Violent and serious crime down nearly 9 percent
- December third hottest since 1931
- New rules for drone flights approved. Know the changes
- ►December
- ►2018
- ►December
- Are you going to drive? Use the "car mode" of your smartphone
- Lisbon NEW YEAR Festivities Security and Safety Measures
- Assault victim in Câmara de Lobos goes to the hospital
- Operation” New Year”
- 15 dead on the roads during the Christmas period (21st – 26th December)
- Police looking for man who attacked youngsters in Cascais
- ASAE seizes 124 tonnes of table olives
- Christmas Day shooting in Elvas results in one death
- Yellow vests – Planned demonstration fails to gather pace
- raft Political Declaration setting out the framework for the future relationship between the European Union and the United Kingdom Safety and Security - Summary,
- Preliminary report on the INEM helicopter accident investigation
- Public who took pieces of the helicopter may have harmed investigation
- Brexit: No visa but Britons will pay €7 to travel to EU countries
- 96-year-old woman assaulted and robbed in her home in Valado dos Frades, in Nazaré
- Caldas da Rainha – Four detained for kidnapping and attempted extortion and robbery.
- Judicial Police apprehends three persons suspected of control of women for prostitute
- Three arrested for thefts of tobacco machines and religious items from cemeteries
- Social-Democratic deputy in the Madeiran parliament caught drink driving - shots fired during car chase.
- Policia Florestal Corps rescues tourist who was lost in the mountains of Madeira
- Easy Jet makes an emergency landing
- Foreigner detained for crimes against Asian Tourists"
- 84% of fire brigades failed to report information to district commanders
- Minister of Interior reaffirms to voluntary firefighters that all avenues of dialogue are open in reform process
- Prevention of terrorism: Festive security precautions
- "Do more and even better” in the fight against fires in the coming years
- Six years in prison for former ATL employee who used minors for thefts
- Elderly woman killed in Foz Côa during house robbery
- Beware Counterfeit 50 Euro Bank notes in circulation
- ►November
- Madeira – GNR Seize 580 litres of illegal alcoholic beverages
- Man sentenced to a year and a half in prison for stealing six euros
- Funchal - Streets closed in Funchal due to a suspicious object
- IPMA WEATHER WARNING HIGH SEAS, WINDS and HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS
- New Emergency Card Intends to improve communication between foreigners, authorities and medical emergency teams.
- PSP investigates dock assaults
- PSP Lisbon District Metropolitan Police neutralize drug trafficking group
- Operation "Lusar"
- Conclusion of complex investigation of crimes of falsification or counterfeiting of documents, qualified fraud and money laundering
- Journalists accused of illegally divulging parts of Operation Marquis
- PJ holds seven suspects of scams and falsification of documents
- GNR Operation "Shadowgame" gambling operation results in the arrest of 20 people
- ►October
- Operation Albare - Eight persons arrested – Money laundering 40 million and other crimes
- Change of direction in the way the country addresses the rural fires
- President of Tourism of the North arrested on suspicion of corruption
- MAI plans to extend SMS warnings to other disasters, in addition to fires
- NO PLANS TO FURTHER EXTEND THE CRITICAL FIRE PERIOD BEYOND 15TH OCTOBER
- Damage caused by Tropical Storm Leslie
- Hurricane Leslie heads towards Portugal landing at Lisbon district
- Doctors will gather to warn about chaos in emergency services in winter
- Fire at Sintra- Cascais National Park
- JUDICIAL POLICE INVESTIGATES SINTRA - CASCAIS FIRE – PLEASE SHARE
- Beach Safety and Rip Currents
- SEF detains lawyer suspected of making unfounded asylum applications
- SEF inspectors detect, in one day, eight false documents at Lisbon Airport
- Primera Air Files for Bankruptcy and ceases Operations
- Ten arrested suspected of drug trafficking and possession of prohibited weapons in Seia
- Increased Rural Fire Hazard Issued 1st October 1430 hrs
- Portugal Hottest September since records began.
- ►September
- Pedrógão Grande: MP accuses 12 people of negligent homicide (manslaughter) crimes
- Critical Fire period Extended to 15th October 2018
- Director of the Military Judiciary Police detained in the context of the Tancos case
- Six die in crash between two minivans on IC8 in Pombal
- Detained man with 30 doses of heroin in Madeira
- Prosecutor suspended banking transactions worth 200 million euros this year
- ^5 year old man arrested with 210 cannabis plants
- Acores Earthquake Activity – Civil Protection issues Self protection warning
- Road Traffic Enforcement and accidents
- Overseas Experts visit Portugal to access Rural fire management
- Five more pick pockets arrested by PSP Lisbon Metropolitan
- Forty Two detained for various offences
- Preventive Detention for Robbery
- Seizure of counterfeit articles at the "Fair of Light"
- Person injured following fall on Levada Fajã do Rodrigues in São Vicente
- Porto Santo- Alleged bomb threat on local flight – confirmed as false alarm.
- PJ arrest two drug addicts who called police falsely claiming they had been robbed.
- PSP holds three young people for drug trafficking and closes establishments in Lisbon
- Social Security closed 56 homes and eight crèches this year
- Person arrested for causing a forest fire in Almodovar
- Run the World - Complete a 10km run in all 206 countries in the world by the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
- Acores - Red level High seas, strong winds and heaving rainfall warnings to be hoisted.
- Delay in the statute and organic law of the PJ compromises the fight against corruption
- Azores - 840 kgs Cocaine seized by Judicial Police
- PSP Police commence "Operation Safe School 2018/19"
- Portuguese Air Force saves 150 migrants from vessel sinking in Mediterranean sea
- Premier FX Closure - Reporting to authorities in Portugal
- Rural Fires - Provisional Figures show reduction in ignitions and burned area
- ►August
- Causes of Rural fires
- IMPORTANT REFERENCES IN THE EVENT OF AN EXTREME RISK OF RURAL FIRES
- Person arrested for Forest Fire crime
- Insults and threats made to the Pedrógão Grande Council over fire donations
- Number of Defibrillators in public spaces set to rapidly expand
- Rural Fires – Government Contact Point to receive public views
- Rising Temperatures Public Health advice 18th - 19th August
- ANPC WARNING INCREASE IN SEVERITY - SMS TEXT TO THOSE IN AREA IMPLEMENTED
- Premier FX Administrators appointed
- Pension fraud and scams
- PUBLIC SAFETY ADVICE FOLLOWING MONCHIQUE FIRE - PLEASE SHARE
- Note on to statement of the Prime Minister at the ANPC
- MONCHIQUE FIRES - SITREP - 10th AUGUST 2018 10.00 hrs
- MONCHIQUE FIRES - FARO CDPC EXTRAORDINARY MEETING
- MONCHIQUE - FIRE PROTECTION AND ADVICE FROM GOVERNMENT
- MONCHIQUE FIRES – SITREP – 9th AUGUST 10.00 hrs
- MONCHIQUE FIRES – SITREP – WEDNESDAY - MONDAY 8TH AUGUST – 12. 00 HRS
- MONCHIQUE FIRES - SITREP – 8TH AUGUST 2018 – 08.00 hrs
- MONCHIQUE FIRES - SITREP- TUESDAY 7TH AUGUST 13.00 HRS
- Rural Fires 6th August 2018 ANPC Operational Situation - Press Release
- Monchique Fires - SITREP - 6th August 22.00 hrs
- UK Travel Advice - Monchique
- MONCHIQUE RURAL FIRES - SITREP 5TH AUGUST 2018 23.00 hrs
- MONCHIQUE RURAL FIRES - SITREP 5TH AUGUST 2018 23.00 hrs
- ANPC Press release Updated fire situation
- Action in the Event of a rural fire
- Monchique Rural Fire - SITREP – 5th August 1300 hrs
- Rural Fire in Estremoz - six injured
- Monchique Rural Fire SITREP - 4th August 2018 - 20.00 hrs
- Monchique Rural Fire - SITREP - 4TH August 2018 - 1700 hrs
- Rural Fires - Statement of Alert situation
- Hotel customers arrested for document forgery and computer fraud
- Especially violent crime - organized crime
- Full Moon Operation - Judiciary Police and GNR detain narcotics traffickers at BOOM Festival
- ANPC - Increase in temperatures Advice for tourists
- ►July
- Carnaxide - Detained for attempted qualified homicide
- Maritime Police Advise of Thefts on Beaches
- The number of detainees from the Hells Angels group is 59
- Pedrógão Grande: Number of defendants increases to 18
- Judicial Police dismantle criminal network installing credit card reading devices in ATMs
- Judicial Police arrest five persons and seize 15 kgs of Hashish
- 56 persons linked to Hells Angeles motorcycle group arrested for serious crimes ahead of Faro’s motorcycle gathering
- Mandatory Registration of Drones
- ►June
- Priority for the prevention of forest fires "was a great victory in society"
- Social Security launches protocol for emergencies and catastrophes
- Safe Village and Safe Persons Program - MAI Social Communication Note - June 14, 2018
- ICNF LAUNCHES APP TO HELP IN REQUESTING THE BURNING OF DEBRIS AND SCRIBLAND WASTE
- Portuguese society has never been so prepared» for forest fires
- Prison sentences for owner and driver of vehicle involved in vehicle accident where 12 Portuguese citizens died
- Lawyer obtained millions through Gold Visa scams
- GNR cancels 31 counts of misconduct for lack of clearing of weeds
- Villages have 450 local security officers under Safe Village – Safe People Scheme
- Portugal decreases slightly to 4th place in latest global piece index results
- Safe Villages - Safe People publicity material
- ►May
- Safe Villages - Safe People – Self Protection Awareness Sessions
- SEF holds seven foreign nationals for irregular stay in Portugal
- Delay in the issuing Passports and Residence permits
- Land Cleaning - Beware Fraudsters attempting to elicit fines for non-compliance
- Fire-fighting plan in the Algarve reinforced and with many new features
- Portugal will have aerial fire-fighting capacity throughout the year for the first time - Minister
- Six arrested for abduction, forced marriage and rape of an 18 year old
- Man detained at the airport with cocaine sufficient for 30 thousand doses
- ANPC MONTEMURO Exercise
- Tavira Land Cleaning Awareness Session for the Foreign Community
- Government will refurbish PSP facilities in the Azores
- Elderly woman opened the door to two women and was robbed in Coimbra
- Firemen and EMIR assist passenger at Madeira Airport
- National Watchtower Network starts operating today 7th May
- VILA VERDE FIREFIGHTER SHOT WHEN FIGHTING A FIRE CAUSED BY BURNING
- Most wanted British fugitive, Jamie Acourt, captured in Barcelona
- ASAE makes the biggest ever seizure of cash during anti-counterfeiting (sports shoes) operation
- SEF intercepts persons on suspicion of tobacco smuggling
- SEF executes search warrants in Coimbra
- Tondela – Man Identified for robberies, extortion and threats with firearm
- Ourique - Arrested for crimes of theft
- Welcome to ALGARSAFE'18!
- Four Arrested for theft at Humberto Delgado Airport Lisbon
- ►April
- Safe Communities Portugal signs Protocol with the Ministry of Internal Administration
- PSP criminal investigation will receive one million euros for refurbishment of facilities
- PJ needs 240 new inspectors to get out of "suffocation"
- SEF Inspectors Union warns of "lack of control" of trafficking in human beings in Portugal
- Portugal will have 640 beaches approved for bathing this year, plus 99 against 2017
- Man confessed to having caused a fire on the worst day on 2017 in Oliveira de Azeméis
- Five arrested for causing rural fires
- Câmara de Lobos - Detention for vehicle theft and driving without legal authorisation
- 41 Detained by the PSP of Lisbon
- More than 100,000 doses of heroin and cocaine seized by PSP in Porto
- Monchique GPCF EDITAL NO. 4/2018 Execution of Fuel Management Bands
- CIVIL PROTECTION AND PORTUGUESE ARMY TEST EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO A SEISMIC SCENARIO IN THE ALGARVE REGION
- Olhão - GNR seizes 50 thousand euros in illegal casino
- Madeira businessman acquitted of fraud in diamond business
- Special team set up to investigate linked football crimes
- Two tonnes of clams seized by GNR Coastal Control Unit
- Porto - Judicial Police arrest person for drug trafficking
- PSP Operational activities 9th April 2018
- PSP Cascais arrest two persons for theft on train
- Funchal – Three arrested for drug trafficking
- ►March
- Abandoned dogs and cats 2017
- Portugal Crime Statistics for 2017
- Land Cleaning - How measures will be enforced
- Portugal will deploy more than 500 police and military personnel in Frontex missions
- Ten people arrested for illegal sale of U2 concert tickets
- Pre-trial detention for 13 robberies against the elderly
- Judicial Police detain a man for setting fire to an apartment in Vila Nova de Gaia
- Extradition of two persons wanted by Portuguese authorities from Brazil
- Alcains – Two persons arrested for more than 30 vehicle thefts
- GNR Search and Rescue exercises in extreme weather conditions
- WARNING TO THE POPULATION - PRECIPITATION, WIND and HIGH SEAS ISSUED 16TH MARCH 2018
- WARNING TO THE POPULATION- ROUGH SEAS, PRECIPITATION, WIND AND SNOW FALL ISSUED 14TH March
- WARNING TO THE POPULATION - PRECIPITATION, SNOW, WIND and ROUGH SEAS
- WARNING TO THE POPULATION LIKELIHOOD OF FLOODING IN THE TEJO BASIN AND THE MUNICIPALITY OF COMBRA
- Rain improves water supplies, but the drought is not over yet
- WARNING TO THE POPULATION PRECIPITATION, WIND and HIGH SEAS
- Orange alert for the mountainous regions of Madeira with the wind reaching 130km / h
- French sailboat in distress near Porto Santo
- ►February
- ANPC Notice to the population issued 27th February - Precipitation, snowfall, wind and high seas
- Prime Minister - The greatest threat to internal security facing the country is the risk of fire
- Lordosa – Four to appear in court for causing forest fires due to burning of debris
- Santa Maria da Feira - Two arrested for robbing an 85 year old woman
- Portuguese Fireman’s League threatens to boycott Governments Special Firefighting Mechanism (DECIF), 2018
- Seismic situation in Azores expected to last a few more days
- Câmara de Lobos - three persons arrested for drug trafficking
- Safer Internet Day - 6th February 2018
- Advice to the population - Freezing temperatures
- Cold Weather – Porto and Lisbon announce contingency plans to help the homeless
- ►January
- Directorate-General for Health recommends yellow fever vaccination for all travellers to Brazil
- Forest Fires - Communiqué of the Ministerial Council of January 18, 2018
- Minister of Internal Affairs, Eduardo Cabrita, at the press conference of the Council of Ministers, Lisbon, January 18, 2018
- Seven years in jail for person guilty of 17 burglaries
- Massive operation by GNR Tax Action Unit and Tax Authority results in seizure of 12 tonnes of tobacco leaf and 19 arrests
- Alcaria – Person accused of pet cruelt
- Maritime Authority warn: Rough seas and strong swells until 19th December
- Portugal Eight dead and 50 injured in boiler explosion
- Illegal IPTV streaming network shut down by law enforcement authorities – Four arrests
- PSP Ribeira Brava - Seizure of 12 weapons
- Warning to Population: Precipitation, snow, wind and rough seas
- Hidden cameras found in several Airbnb rented apartments
- MP confirms arrest of Mayor of Funchal and two others resulting from fall of tree that killed 13 people
- Warning – Rain, snow, wind and rough seas - Issued 4th January 2018
- More than 500 people died on Portuguese roads in 2017
- 2004 Tsunami in Indonesia: 13th Anniversary of Portugal's Emergency Support Mission
- Survey shows almost a 1m people may have fallen victim to fraud on Airbnb website last year.
- ASAE seizes half a tonne of suckling piglet
- GNR Operational Results 30th December to 1st January
- GNR record over New Year fewer deaths, injuries and accidents than last year
- LBP Proposes Memorial to Deceased Firefighters
- GNR Operation “Tranquilo Natal" - Results
- ►December
- ►2017
- ►December
- New Year’s Eve Top Tips Safety Messages from police
- New Year Safety and Security arrangements Lisbon
- New year's festivities in the Praça do Comércio, Lisbon - Safety and Security arrangements
- ANPC Issues high seas and wind warning
- PSP Lisbon Metropolitan Police – Operational activity 22nd – 29th December
- GNR Operation "Tranquilo Natal" – Results
- Judicial Police arrest six persons for series of high value burglaries
- ASAE seizes about 30,000 counterfeit articles
- IPMA issues orange and yellow adverse weather alerts as Storm Bruno affects Portugal
- One dead and five injured from carbon monoxide poisoning
- Fire destroys rural tourism unit in Alandroal
- ASAE seizes Fake "Barca Velha" and "Pêra Manca" wine
- Vila Real - Joint operation between the GNR and the Spanish Guardia Civil
- GNR GIPS Awarded the Distinguished Public Safety Services Gold Medal
- Eleven prison sentences for massive driving license corruption case
- Porto - GNR seizes 21 kg of heroin and arrests 18 persons in one of the largest trafficking networks
- GNR operation results in 491 Persons identified for drunk driving
- Forty defendants charged with theft of luxury cars
- ANPC Notice to the Population - Cold and dry weather
- Attempting to travel on a cancelled passport
- Person arrested by PSP for theft from vehicles
- Couple sentenced for trafficking in persons, pimping and aiding illegal immigration
- GNR Gerês - Rescue five young people lost in Peneda-Gerês National Park
- GNR seize clams worth nearly thirty thousand euros
- GNR Sintra seize €70,000 in counterfeit clothing
- The commander of the Civil Protection who became a hero in Pedrógão Grande
- Loures - Five persons charged with attempted homicide against police agents
- ►November
- This years flu maybe more serious - Vacinations recommended by Health Authority
- Strengthening the European Union in civil protection meets the needs identified by Portugal
- Portugal integrated into the Tsunami early warning network
- GNR holds three people and registers nine crimes during private security operation
- Minister of International Administration announces budget for police and civil protection
- More than 5,000 child sex offenders are registered
- Judicial Police arrest 52 persons arrested in major drug trafficking operation
- Arrested for agricultural burning leading to Forest Fires
- Calls for greater international cooperation in combatting on-line travel fraud
- Safe Communities Portugal Celebrates its 5th Anniversary
- Security Companies to be suspended in serious cases
- Rural Fire Hazard Warning Published by ANPC - Please Share
- Mobile support units deployed to municipalities affected by October fires
- Portugal should strive to remain one of the safest countries in the world
- Volunteer and professional fire brigades join forces to create the Portuguese Fire Brigade Federation.
- Public company for the management of forests to be created
- More than 442,000 thousand hectares burned in the worst year ever in Portugal
- 2017 is one of the three hottest years ever
- Mourato Nunes is the new president of Civil Protection
- More accidents, more dead and more injured on the roads this year
- NEAMWAVE'17 Exercise to test the alert system and effectiveness of level of reaction to a tsunami
- Portuguese Marines board a ship 800 kms south of Portugal and seize a ton of cocaine
- UN Special Adviser wants an increase in women police officers in UN missions
- Driest October for 20 years and hottest since 1931
- ►October
- PYRO-CUMULONIMBUS. The phenomenon that may be the origin of the fires of October 15
- Report finds serious security breaches at prisons' entry
- Fires caused peak air pollution and Fumes reached the Baltic countries
- Conferência "Um alerta para a fraude online na indústria do turismo"
- Prime Minister has not yet accepted resignation of the president of Civil Protection
- Conference - On-line Fraud affecting the Global Tourism Industry
- Immediate response to feeding of farm animals affected by October fires
- Criminal Group who enticed French Nationals to Portugal arrested
- National Strategy for the Prevention of Forest Fires Approved by Government
- Portugal – Government reshuffle - appointments/re-appointments
- ANPC Bulletin - Increased Fire risk over the next week
- Incêndios: Mangualde divulga lista de bens prioritários para socorro das populações
- ANPC - Notice to the population - Marine Conditions
- Fires: Câmara de Santa Comba Dão, Viseu requests volunteers for reconstruction d collection donations
- Municipality of Mangualde – Appeal for donations of goods to help fire victims
- Minister of Justice highlights role of Judicial Police in fire prevention
- Recovery of weapons stolen from Tacos Military base
- Five suspects arrested of robbing an elderly couple in Viana do Castelo
- Prime Minister’s speech to the nation on 16th October regarding the forest fires
- Deployment of Army in fighting forest fires
- Forest Fires Public Calamity Announcement by the Prime Minister on 15th October -
- Worst day of the year for number of forest fires
- Portugal - Forest Fires - SITREP 15:30 hrs 15th October 2017
- Pedrógão Grande - The State is responsible for the failures of services
- Pedrógão Grande fire report - Key findings
- Lisbon - Strong police response to protest by security forces
- Pedrógão Grande report identifies serious failures in the response to the fire
- Government reopens 72 GNR lookouts due to fires
- Secretary of State says latest fires are of criminal origin.
- ATM explosion destroys bank branch in Leiria
- September was the hottest and driest month of the last 87 years
- Over 80% of Portugal in “Severe drought”
- Maritime Police to step up surveillance on the "big weekend"
- National Maritime Authority (AMN) advise safety when entering cold water
- PJ seize 400 kilograms of cocaine in a vessel and detain two men
- Caldas da Rainha Crime Prevention and Public Safety Seminar
- ►September
- Climate of security in Portugal has created investment - MAI
- Millions of medicines seized in largest operation against online pharmacies
- PSP arrest four persons for drug trafficking and possession of a prohibited weapon
- Lisbon - PSP detain person for burglaries
- Lisbon - Person detained by PSP suspected of homicide
- Crime Prevention and Public Safety Seminar - Caldas da Rainha
- Fake marriages involving Portuguese women allow Nigerians to enter Europe
- British Proconsul Angela Morado awarded an Honorary MBE by HM the Queen
- Illegal races cross Portugal at more than 210 kph
- Former firefighter sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison for starting rural fires
- Criminal group involved in large-scale trafficking of illegal doing substances disrupted
- Caldas da Rainha Multibanco machine damaged by explosives
- PROJECT EDWARD - European Day without a Road Death
- Guarda - GNR arrests 10 persons for drug trafficking
- Wheelchair to help disabled bathers stolen on Mindelo beacho
- ►August
- GNR seize shotgun and cannabis in operation in Murtosa
- PJ holds two men who made fake 20 euro banknotes
- Man Given 3-Month Prison Sentence for ‘Liking’ a Photo on Facebook
- Strike by SEF Inspectors cancelled - Government authorises recruitment of 100 new inspectors
- Portugal link in record heroin drug seizure in Spain – 11 arrested
- Macao - Five dead and 153 injured as a result of Typhoon Hato
- Pilot dead in fire fighting helicopter crash
- The causes of rural fires in 2017
- Terrorist attack in Barcelona and Cambrils Spain – Portuguese victim
- Santana - Double Homicide
- Government penalizes SIRESP operator following Pedrógão Grande deaths
- SEF participates in police operation in Malaga
- ANPC issues high temperature and fire risk warnings
- Civil Protection in Turmoil – ANPC denounces inaccurate media report
- GNR GIPS rescues child in Gerês
- SEF arrests four persons for illegal immigration, pimping
- SEF detains person wanted by Brazil for homicide
- SEF detain foreign citizen in Oporto wanted by Spain for drug trafficking
- Lisbon - Two persons arrested for robbery
- Oporto - Two arrest for drug trafficking
- Judicial Police arrest person for causing fire in Penafiel
- ►July
- GNR rescues 133 migrants in the Aegean
- Vila Cova da Lixa – GNR seize more than 2 900 counterfeit articles
- Lisbon – Woman detained at the airport with 23 capsules of cocaine inside her body
- Former TAP employees on Angola's money laundering scheme
- Great Ormond Street staff 'get death threats' over Charlie Gard
- Man accused of raping three women in Valongo
- Man accused of raping three women in Valongo
- Madeira - GNR makes record breaking seizure of cannabis plants
- Azores - US military acquitted rape and attempted murder
- Portugal lost almost a third of the firefighters in ten years, but professionals increase.
- Government advances by the end of July the mandatory registration of drones
- Four years in prison for inspector of the PJ who diverted 40 thousand euros
- Breakthrough in crackdown on travel false sickness claims
- Castelo Branco - 15 arrested for trafficking in narcotics
- Madeira forest fire arsonist sentenced to 14 years
- IPMA - Only a 5% chance of Pedrógão Grande fire was caused by lightening
- Aveiro - Person who started nine forest fires given suspended sentence
- Eight firefighters injured, two in serious condition, in fire at Abrantes
- Pedrógão Grande: Government estimates losses of 500 million euros
- GNR Operation “Safe Summer” 2017
- Authorities warn of probable disease increase in Pedrógão Grande following fires
- Lisbon - Airport employee seriously assaulted by two passengers
- Fraud: British agencies encourage tourists to file false sickness claims in Portugal
- ►June
- Cascais - The Safe and Sunny Tourism Seminar breaks new ground
- Navy sends 154 military personnel for safety and population support following fires
- PJ holds woman suspected of starting a forest fire in Lamego
- Forest Fire Risk warning issued by ANPC - 23rd June
- Portugal Fires – Situation Report – 22nd June 1100 hrs - Embassy contact list
- Portugal: At least 62 people killed in forest fires northeast of Lisbon
- Fire Surveillance teams already patrol Madeira
- 19-year-old firefighter who is alleged to have started fires arrested by Judicial Police
- Plane makes manoeuvre to avoid collision with drone when landing in Cascais
- "Recovery of two " French bulldogs""
- GNR recovers 3000 stolen cork wallets in Vila do Conde
- Government prepares punishments against magistrates who delay proceedings
- The Safe and Sunny Holiday Seminar
- The Judiciary Police, carried out searches in Porto and Lisbon hospitals – three doctors constituted defendents.
- GNR dismantles fraud of more than 40 million euros in tobacco
- GNR seize 16 tonnes of frozen octopus
- PSP detain seven persons for drug trafficking
- ►May
- ASAE union threatens court action against Ministry of Economy
- Security “was not and is not a priority" in Portugal, says President of OSCOT
- Cybercrime and violence in sport are priorities for criminal investigation by 2019
- Funchal - Seizure of more than 300 liters of Japanese Sake
- 10 tonnes of hashish seized in the Strait of Gibraltar with six arrested in Judicial Police coordinated operation
- Two Luxembourg nationals accused of cheating hundreds of Portuguese citizens in air travel fraud go to trial
- Pastor detained suspected of causing a forest fire in the Alvão mountain range
- Seventh member of armed robbery gang in Alentejo arrested
- Two “Hugs and Kisses thieves” detained by PSP
- Fatima – GNR Operational results
- Portugal was able to defend itself against the Wannacry
- Accidental hero' halts ransomware attack and warns: this is not over
- Pope’s visit: Operation passed with tranquillity, says the Government
- Suspect of creating game Blue whale says he was "cleaning society"
- Three Chinese citizens arrested at the border with 706,000 euros in cash
- Leader of "gang" of drug trafficking in Porto sentenced to 14 years
- Sixty nine maltreated animals recovered by GNR in Setúbal
- GNR seized 3.8 million euros in counterfeit goods in 2016
- Woman hiding cocaine in children's books destined for Portugal
- Foreigner detained and another notified to leave Portugal
- Braga court sentences 23 defendants for drug trafficking
- Person accused of more than one thousand crimes of child pornography in Lisbon
- The Blue Whale Challenge
- Suicide Game "Blue Whale" arrives in Portugal - Police give advice to parents
- ►April
- PSP Lisbon detain person for robberies on Public Transport
- GNR and PSP begin training for dangerous dog owners by end of June
- In three years, the PSP seized 6870 converted alarm weapons
- Temporary re-introduction of border controls during His Holiness Pope Francis visit
- Person detained in Lisbon in connection with arrest warrant issued by Italian authorities
- Over 100 firefighters fight fire in Trajouce
- GNR recover parts from 300 stolen cars
- Police detain man for causing a forest fire in Barcelos
- Judicial Police arrest man suspected of child pornography
- Funchal - Man appears before court charged with qualified homicide of ex-girlfriend.
- Seven children abused every day.
- Lisbon - Campaign to educate people on the selling of Fake drugs by street venders
- PSP arrest two persons for drug trafficking
- GNR Conduct operations on Private Security Activities
- Portugal made eight thousand requests to Facebook, Google and Microsoft to fight cybercrime
- Network dismantled trafficking in luxury vehicles rented in Portugal
- Operation "Cobra" - Wildlife protection
- Figueiró dos Vinhos - Recovery of stolen material
- Up to 800 Portuguese students returned to Portugal following vandalism in Spain.
- Person arrested for defrauding an elderly person using counterfeit €50 bank notes
- Judicial Police detain two people for fraud and counterfeiting of credit cards in Lisbon
- ASAE seizes 5000 litres of Goat’s milk
- “State” earns money from Prostitution fines.
- PSP seize illegal weapons
- Algarve Crime - Lowest since 1998
- ►March
- PSP destroy over 3000 firearms
- 2016 recorded the lowest number of crimes in the last 15 years.
- Seizures of hashish and ecstasy up nearly 200% in 2016
- Barcelos – ASAE dismantles illegal casino
- Ministry calls for improved inventory of police weapons
- Portugal - Proposals to combat terrorism, involve loss of nationality to those convicted
- Judicial Police investigation death of elderly woman in Madeira
- Four people stabbed to death in the parish of São Veríssimo, in Barcelos.
- Suspect of terrorism interrogated in Lisbon stays in pre-trial detention
- SEF inspect nightlife and massage establishments in Aveiro
- Victims of dating violence increase 60% in three years
- Aveiro - Major Fire at paper mill
- GNR Awareness operation of forest fires
- Individual of financing Islamic State arrested in Spain
- Lisbon - Lost backpack containing €5000 found and returned to owner
- "Hackers" attack computers of the National Defence Institute
- PJ arrests woman for fraud of millions in Belgium
- Government changes GNR status concerning senior promotions.
- PSP hold company liable for managing goldsmith security alarms without permits
- PSP seizes more than six thousand doses of hashish in Beja
- Bomb threat results in bank evacuation in Oliveira de Azeméis
- Suspect child trafficker detained by SEF in Lisbon
- GNR detains 52 persons in 12 hour operation
- Young person assaulted next to disco in Funchal
- PSP in Porto detains 17 people during operation
- Portuguese couple arrested in Spain for human trafficking and slavery
- PSP destroy more than 3000 weapons
- PSP seizes hashish worth more than 2 million euros
- Parliament approves increase in penalties for Corruption
- Nine people including eight Chinese detained for money laundering
- Europol’s Serious and Organised Crime Threat (SOCTA) 2017
- Madeira - Two people charged with negligent homicide of girl who died in inflatable bouncy castle
- Public prosecutor accuses former firefighter of 17 fire crimes
- Lisbon - Four arrested and €600,000 worth of drugs seized
- Alleged robbery of 80 year old not pursued by prosecutors
- FCA reveals the tactics investment fraudsters use to deceive over 55s
- Pet Cruelty Crime increases in 2016
- Parish councils will be able to create local civil protection units
- Spain - Criminal organization dedicated to blasting ATMs dismantled
- Army will help fight forest fires
- Madeira – PSP Operation Always Present Police - Carnival in Security 2017
- Colombian drug network dismantled in Spain
- ATM broken into in Caldas da Rainha
- ASAE seizes ivory for sale on the internet
- Search continues for missing 13 year old
- ►February
- Tourist falls whilst walking on Levada
- French tourist dies in Botanical gardens
- German Tourist Falls
- Lawyer arrested while taking drugs to client in prison
- GNR detain in Campo Maior two men for car theft from the Câmara de Mogadouro
- Nine thousand drivers caught without a valid driving licence
- Trancoso - missing elderly person found by GNR
- GNR tests social networks in response to earthquake simulation
- Civil Protection technicians from Alentejo and Algarve received training in Mértola
- Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs summoned to parliament
- Escapee from prison in Portugal released in Spain due to lack of warrant
- DNA database only has 6000 profiles of convicts - It should have 42,000
- "332 Detained"
- PSP detain person for five robberies in Sintra
- Lourosa - GNR seize 12,000 doses of hashish
- Minister of interior hands over 34 vehicles to PSP
- SEF strengthens staff at Lisbon airport
- Person found guilty of causing forest fire in Madeira in 2016 sentenced to three years in prison.
- Six Irish nationals known as the "Tar Gang" arrested for fraud
- Missing PSP service pistols recovered in Spain
- Ovar - GNR arrest four persons preparing to break into Western Union
- Seia - GNR investigating thefts from 24 vehicles
- Lisbon - Jewellery robbery at Centro Comercial Amoreiras
- US serviceman based in Azores accused of attempted murder, rape and kidnapping
- Lisbon District - Social security, National Health Service and Treasury loose nearly €45 million to fraudsters
- Portugal participates in Europol operation to identify victims of child abuse
- Person appears in court charged with concealment of husband's corpse
- Sines - More than 2,000 doses of drugs seized by GNR
- DNA database only comprises 8,000 samples in seven years
- The Secretary of State for the Environment's official car broken into
- SP arrest person for possession of prohibited weapons and drug trafficking
- Europol meeting attended by Police Chiefs discusses heightened Jihadist terrorism in Europe
- PSP break up Algarve trafficking network supplying drugs to Setúbal
- Course "Combating Illegal Immigration and Trafficking in Persons" in Algeria by SEF experts
- Cascais - Maximum penalty for mother convicted of killing two daughters at sea
- Câmara de Lobos – PSP detain a woman for trafficking in narcotics.
- Pre-trial detention for ten detainees at Amadora earlier this month for violent crime
- Águeda - GNR detain two persons - one ton of copper wire seized
- Quinta do Conde - Closure of illegal home for the elderly
- PSP Viseu detain two boys for drug trafficking in schools
- Judicial Police investigates awarding of bar/catering contracts in hospitals
- Coordinated International Action against Child Pornography - Searches in Lisbon
- Funchal – GNR seize about 3 thousand euros in illicit gambling
- Hackers enter emails and give orders to transfer millions
- Up to 11 years in prison for 13 convicted of breakings during baptisms, weddings and funerals
- Three men suspected of attempting to kill PSP agents arrested by Judicial Police
- GNR and Microsoft sign European Secure Internet Day
- Two detainees in Portugal are among the most wanted in Atgentina
- Ponte de Lima - Attempted Goldsmith robbery using automatic firearms
- GNR arrest a person for burglaries recovering over one million worth of stolen items
- Civil Protection records a thousand incidents mostly due to wind in 48 hours
- 10 Detained for robberies in Police Operation
- PSP Radar Speed checks
- Man arrested for alleged sexual abuse of five children
- GNR Caldas da Rainha detain two for theft of more than 20 vehicles
- GNR opens two new posts in Viseu District
- GNR Operational activity 27th Jan to 2nd Feb
- SEF anti-illegal immigration operation in Chaves
- Judiciary police arrest suspected offender for child sexual abuse and child pornography in aggravated form
- ►January
- More than 38 tonnes of fish seized by the GNR in 2016 donated to social solidarity institutions
- Thousands in Portugal defrauded in US TelexFree pyramid scheme - person arrested
- SEF detains person at Lisbon airport wanted by German Authorities
- Portugal sends special firefighting force to Chile
- Family in Vila Nova de Milfontes intoxicated by carbon monoxide
- ASAE donates 4.4 tons of food in 2016
- Court acquits Algerians who fled Lisbon airport
- Man detained in Serpa for illegal possession of 12 firearms
- Robber shot by goldsmith in abortive robbery attempt
- Nearly 8000 counterfeit bank notes withdrawn from circulation in 2016
- Judicial Police arrest woman for theft using employers credit card codes
- Câmara de Lobos – Woman arrested for drug trafficking
- Person made a defendent following a shooting in the Serra de Agua area
- GNR military man stabbed by three assailants in Campanário.
- PSP sizes large sums of cash in an operation to combat drug trafficking in Funchal
- Police detained six people and seized drugs in Castelo Branco
- SIS official arrested in Rome remains under house
- Road deaths in Portugal show greatest decrease in Europe
- SEF apprehends six persons for working illegally
- Lisbon - SEF detains person wanted by the Spanish Auithorities
- Social Security Institute employee arrested for corruption
- GNR FRONTEX Mission in Greece and Bulgaria - 2016/2017
- PJ holds members of a a "cell" suspected of "millionaire thefts" to houses
- Maj. Gen. Rui Moura Operational Commander of the GNR, considered one of the "brightest" Army officers, resigns
- “Portugal must be prepared for terrorism"
- Spanish Police seize 10,000 firearms in major operation
- Police examining reports of Spanish fake animal welfare charities seeking donations
- PSP arrest person for false employment fraud and theft from elderly in Residence
- Cold weather prompts health agencies to make recommendations
- DGS received 582 complaints of violence against doctors and nurses
- INEM received more than one million calls in 2016
- GNR suspects at least 23 burglaries to houses in Alto Minho
- Lisbon - Two men who climbed a fence at Lisbon airport detained
- Police detain a man suspected of aggravated child pornography
- Charges introduced for candidates applying to join the GNR and PSP
- Funchal – Suspect arrested for Monte Toboggan run murder
- Group dismantled bringing illegal immigrants from France to Portugal
- Madeira - Police arrest a 32-year-old man suspected of crimes against air transport safety
- Sintra creates permanent team of foresters to prevent fires
- Eleven people killed in Road accidents in the first week of the Year.
- Estoril, Cascais - 87 year old woman attacked in her home
- Persons arrested for aggravated robbery with shotgun and arson
- 10 arrests, 34 searches, seizure of more than 158,000 doses of narcotic drugs
- Island of Porto Santo - GNR Seize about 24 kilos of cocaine
- Madeira has the highest incidence rate of domestic violence in Portugal
- Castelo Branco - More than 48 tons of tobacco leaf seized
- Funchal - Person detained in compliance with European Arrest Warrant for tax evasion
- SEF arrest nine persons at Lisbon airport
- GNR Operation New Year - Road traffic accident and enforcement results
- Montijo - Person detained for drug trafficking
- GNR arrest 426 people in operations
- ►December
- ►2016
- ►December
- ANPC - National operational commander to step down
- President of Directing Council of the Regional Civil Protection Service Madeira to step down
- Overall and violent crime continues to decrease in 2016
- Driving license lessons to include first aid
- GNR catches dog after attack on people
- Operation "Tranquilo Natal": 587 accidents and one fatal
- Azores - Public employees arrested on suspicion of diversion of 400 thousand euros
- GNR Guarda delivers footware and clothing to institutions
- GNR Viseu arrests three persons for drug trafficking
- Corruption convictions are less but PJ investigates more
- Additional funding for the GNR and PSP announced
- GNR seizes homemade liqueur on Avenida Arriaga
- Lisbon - PSP arrest man for drug trafficking
- Two persons arrested by Judicial Police for counterfeiting and passing counterfeit money
- Person arrested for deceiving the elderly
- GNR - More than 33 tons of stolen pine cones seized
- GNR Operation "Safe Commerce"
- PSP Operation Safe Holidays
- Estremoz - GNR seize six million cigarettes
- ASAE - Operation activities - Jan to Oct 2016
- SEF arrests wanted person arriving from UK at Porto Airport
- Conviction for pimping in a case investigated by SEF
- Leiria – Six arrested for serious violent crimes
- Person arrested for theft of pine cones
- Alijó – GNR arrest 11 persons for illegal hunting,
- 83 year old arrested for possession of firearms, weapons and ammunition
- Mafra – Two arrested for theft of items from vehicles.
- GNR arrest 138 persons during operations
- GNR detain two persons for illegal stay
- PSP – 24 graduate in sign language course
- Câmara de Lobos - More than 6 kilograms of drugs seized
- ►November
- Nine detained and 25 identified in PSP operation in Câmara de Lobos and Ribeira Brava
- British tourist dies after a fall in Madeira
- Oeiras - 16 year old detained for trafficking in Narcotics "
- Lisbon and Setúbal - Three arrested for theft
- Vila Franca de Xira - Six persons arrested for multiple residential burglaries
- 178 arrests in European operation against money laundering
- PSP Lisbon Metropolitan arrest man for Drug Trafficking
- Maritime Police carry out inspections in the Selvagens
- Venezuelan Police rescue kidnapped Portuguese farmer
- Controlled blasting by GIPS at Fajã ranch in Camara de Lobos.
- GNR seizes 10,000 bees in Ponta Delgada
- Sintra and Mafra - Theft from elderly
- Prison population decreasing but still over limit.
- Judicial police dismantles industrial plantation of cannabis – 600 plants seized – four arrests
- Madeira - Government announces fire prevention plan
- GNR Madeira seize 1.3 kilos of Cocaine
- Setúbal – GNR make 13 arrests and seize 35 tons of pine cones and corks
- PSP identifies 13 subjects in operation in Ribeira Brava and Câmara de Lobos
- PSP Madeira detains six persons for drug trafficking
- Madeira - GNR undertake series of operations
- Madeira – GNR Anti-Gambling operation
- Pharmacists arrested for fraud to the National Health Service
- PSP Police agent arrested
- PSP Lisbon detain arrest two pick pockets
- Operation FRONTEX Greece – GNR Coastal Control Unit returns to Portugal
- ►October
- Chaves - Person arrested for fraud against the elderly
- GNR distribute 50,000 magnetic safety cards for the elderly
- PSP Lisbon seize ivory pieces in action against illegal ivory trading
- Seizure of cigarettes worth EUR 1.24 million
- GNR Agent killed, two others injured following a robbery
- GNR locates backpack containing 25,000 euros – returned to owner
- Malveira - Three arrested for pimping
- East European criminal group dismantled by SEF
- Indian call centre closed down - 750 people apprehended
- Madeira - GNR Seize 1.3 kilograms of cocaine
- Seminar – “From Fire to Floods – Disaster Reduction in the Algarve"
- ►September
- Judicial police arrested two men suspected of aggravated child pornography
- Operation "Guardian Angel" - Results
- Gouveia - missing elderly person rescued by GNR
- Safe Communities Portugal and PSP sign National Protocol
- PSP “Operation Active Safety” results
- SEF arrest person for drug trafficking - Lisbon Airport
- Traffic Accidents increase but road deaths decrease
- PSP arrest more than 19,000 during "Safe Summer" operation
- "Tispol - Seatbelt Operation"
- Alenquer and Torres Vedras - Probation for Domestic Violence
- Monção - Spanish Fugitive arrested in Portugal
- PSP Lisbon Metropolitan Police detain 222 persons
- Madeira PSP arrests for multiple burglaries from residences in Cascais
- Safe Communities Portugal stand 43 - AlgarveExpo - Vilamoura - 17th - 18th September
- Elderly man rescued by GNR in the Serra do Geres
- PSP arrests for multiple burglaries from residences in Cascais
- Sintra – PSP arrests three for drug trafficking
- Person with apparent psychotic disorder arrested for starting a fire in Pinhel, Douro
- Judicial Police arrest person for causing a forest fire in Vila Real
- Beja - Eight arrested on suspicion of robbery and extortion
- Joint Police Operation Cars (JPO Cars)
- Quarteria - Bank Robbery
- New initiative launched to enhance public safety awareness
- 20 people were trapped in Lugar da Várze – evacuations taking place due to forest fires
- Near miss caused by drone at Lisbon Airport
- ►August
- Porto - One person dead, two police injured following a theft.
- Person arrested for aggravated robbery
- PSP Lisbon Metropolitan Police – hold person for drug possession
- Thefts reported at campervan park
- SEF arrests two persons for international drug trafficking at Lisbon airport.
- PSP LIsbon Metropolitan Command mount 221 operations and arrest 187
- GNR arrest five persons for theft of car radiators
- GNR activities against water, air and soil pollution
- GNR Operation Activity 19th - 25th August
- MAFRA "GNR TRAIL" - Families Against Violence
- GNR rescues 58 migrants in Greece
- Two people arrested in Cascais for mobile phone theft
- Madeira Fires - Helping people affected
- Official calls for the Air Force to be allowed to fight fires
- GNR inspects over 3 million households and identifies over 20,000 potential fire infringements
- Madeira Fires cause estimated €55 million on losses
- Lisbon – 4.3 tons of Bivalves seized
- Cascais – Four arrested by PSP for train robberies
- GNR (GIPS) - Fighting forest fires
- Madeira Fires - Three dead over 160 injured
- Adverse Weather Alert issued - Public informed by ANPC to take "Extra Care"
- Woman arrested for drug trafficking
- Évora – Person in custody for drug trafficking
- Judicial police detained robbery suspect at gunpoint
- Counterfeit banknote found in returned hire car
- Tobacco stolen in Ambush in Portalegre
- UK - Online child sex abuse investigation identifies 523 potential victims – 30 million images seized
- Flight to Lisbon makes emergency landing
- Lisbon - Woman in wheel chair arrested for drug trafficking
- Lisbon - Woman arrested in wheel chair for drug trafficking
- Counterfeit banknote found in returned hire car
- Counterfeit banknote found in returned hire car
- Tobacco stolen in Ambush in Portalegre
- 211 Terrorist Incidents in the EU in 2015
- ►July
- ►May
- ►April
- PSP Lisbon arrest 10 people and dismantle drug trafficking network
- It’s seller beware as eBay’s buyer guarantee is exploited by scammers
- SEF executes judicial arrest warrant in Madeira
- Operation Achilles" - Judicial police arrested fifteen people for corruption and money laundering
- Lisbon - Judicial Police arrest armed robber
- Judicial police completes investigation into computer fraud and counterfeiting of credit card security measures
- Grândola – GNR SEPNA Seize 55 dogs subjected to abuse and neglect
- ►March
- GNR to be deployed in Operation FRONTEX "Poseidon 2016," in Kos Island - Greece
- Distraction theft – Coffee shop/restaurant terraces
- Lisbon Metropolitan PSP Celebrates its 149th Anniversary
- Former Islamic extremist arrested on suspicion of £1m eBay scam
- Sintra – Person arrested for car theft and drug trafficking
- ►February
- Who Rescues Injured Animals - Especially at night time?
- PSP - "Operation Click on Security" - Results
- Reports of Dating Violence Increase by 8%
- PSP detain 23 persons for drug trafficking in major operation
- SEF detains person wanted by Lithuanian authorities
- Rain, snow, wind and high sea alerts - Issued by the National Civil Protection Authority ANPC
- Extradition latest - Paramjeet Singh arrested on 18th December in a hotel in the Algarve.
- New initiatives aimed at tackling Cybercrime announced at Cascais Cybercrime Seminar
- PSP Launch Operation “Click Safety” – Safe use of Internet and Social Media for the Young.
- ►January
- Lisbon - Italian tourist lured to remote site and robbed
- Portugal improves its position in latest Corruption Perception Index
- Animal Cruelty Prevention Seminar
- PSP Radar speed checks
- Portuguese Maritime Police save 45 Syrian Refugees in hazardous conditions
- Person caught selling hashish to students
- Cascais - Cybercrime Seminar for Businesses and Residents
- New Driving License Points Scheme
- Judicial police arrest man for child sexual abuse
- ANPC Alert - Worsening of Weather Conditions
- Ribeira Grande, Azores - PSP holds robbery suspect with weapon
- Portuguese Maritime Police rescue 1180 migrants in Aegean Sea
- Retired PSP agent killed during armed robbery in Lisbon
- PSP Radar speed checks for January 2016
- One in three drivers killed in road accidents are as a result of drink driving
- ►December
- ►2015
- ►December
- President Safe Communities Portugal awarded BEM in Queen's New Years Honours List 2016
- Two persons arrested for series of robberies
- Two persons arrested for planning New Years Eve terrorist attacks in Brussels
- PSP Operational results and reinforcement of security over the next hours.
- EU must respond to challenges on Border Security and integration of refugees
- More than 500 arrested in INTERPOL operation targeting phone and email scams
- GNR Operation Safe Trade
- Safe Communities Portugal signs national protocols with SEF and the ANPC
- Person arrested in UK for arranging fraudulent acquisition of Portuguese nationality
- More than 540 000 migrants have arrived on the Greek islands in the first ten months of the year
- ►November
- ►October
- Judicial Police free kidnap victim and arrest three persons
- PSP officer given award by UN Secretary General
- PSP Radar speed checks 26th - 30th October
- Around one in five thefts at Lisbon Airport result in identification of the suspect.
- ASAE seizes 6600 wooden panels for non-compliance with legal requirements.
- Person who swallowed cocaine packets dies on Lisbon - Dublin flight
- Judicial Police seize 5 kgs of cocaine at Lisbon airport
- Leaked document shows UN agency in charge of drug war wants world to decriminalise all drugs
- Twenty Tonnes of Cannabis Resin seized during international police operation
- Congress calls for reduction of speed limit to 30 kph in urban centres
- French fighter intercepts Monarch flight from Madeira to Birmingham
- Judicial police makes arrests for sexual abuse of a child
- PSP Lisbon Metropolitan Police Command make largest ever seizure of Heroin
- Spanish Police arrest 89 people for trafficking in Human Beings
- Fake Online Travel Agency selling plane tickets dismantled.
- Joint International Operation by France and Portugal leads to arrest of 69 persons involved in irregular migration
- Foreign drivers face ban in France under “virtual licences” safety scheme
- PSP Radar speed check locations - October
- 29 fake on line drugs detected
- Braga - Boy aged 9 years in critical condition after being shot playing "cops and robbers"
- Judicial police arrested four foreign nationals suspected of being part of a criminal cocaine trafficking network
- 1-31st October: Fighting Forest Fires - Special Device Delta phase - DECIF 2015.
- SEF and French Authorities arrest six persons for trafficking of illegal immigrants
- 13 000 drivers arrested so far this year for drink driving
- Burning of Rubbish and Fire PreventionLaws
- ►September
- Dealing with Intruders and the use of Force
- GNR Operation Verão Seguro
- GNR - Operation Safe Summer Results
- Judicial Police arrest person for starting three fires
- Lisbon - PSP Agent stabbed whilst arresting a Pickpocket
- ASAE seizes nine tons of meat and fish
- GNR finds an arsenal of nearly 100 weapons in Ansiães in Bragança
- Aveiro - Six Drug Traffickers held in detention
- Judicial Police issue over criminal activities known as "SEXTORTION"
- Joint operation of the Judicial Police and Spanish Police results in the arrest of 15 persons and seizure of 1.9 tons of cocaine.
- Four deaths due to drowning at sea this year
- ►August
- A PSP agent, his son and a GNR Guarda killed by an elderly man in Sesimbra, Setubal
- Greatest cause of accidents involving children in Portugal through falling
- Twenty persons indicted for human trafficking and criminal association
- Ashley Madison – Location of users in the Algarve published.
- Arsonist responsible for at least forest fires arrested.
- Ashley Madison Hackers post data base online
- Judicial Police seize 327 kgs of cocaine and arrest five persons.
- GNR Sintra - Person detained for theft of water meters.
- Spanish Police detain five people for fraud in respect of the renting of luxury villas in Marbella
- 9th August – Worst day for fires so far this year
- Fire-fighting helicopter makes emergency landing avoiding major disaster
- Weather situation and Fire Risk
- ANPC and Safe Communities Portugal join forces in preventing forest fires
- Scam tricks Facebook users into hacking themselves
- Judicial Police arrest five men and seize 491 kgs of Cocaine in massive drugs operation
- Two arrested for importing 9.5 kgs of Cocaine by air
- Driver recorded at 243km/h during GNR road road racing operation
- Eight foreign drug traffickers sentenced following Cocaine Seizure in 2014
- SEF Inspectors Union Suspends Strike Action
- ►July
- Four arrested for the the rape and sexual abuse of two tourists.
- PSP Operation to counter Road Fatalities
- 180 people serving sentences at home with electronic monitoring
- SEF detains foreigner in possession of forged Greek ID
- Lisbon Airport - Person arrested for drug trafficking
- Police find stolen USB stick holding personal data of 13,000 Barclays Bank customers
- GNR - Enforcement Action against Mistreatment of Pets
- One in 10 people take selfies whilst driving a UK poll has revealed
- PSP – Arrests increase in the first half of 2015
- Safe Communities Portugal forms partnership with community security project Azeitão+Seguro.
- PSP - Operation Safe Summer 2015 - More than 1,300 ARRESTS
- Porto - Thirteen detained for Drug Trafficking
- Foreign criminals face new crackdown as new UK visa rules demand police checks
- Spanish Police Dismantle "Pyramid Selling" Network responsible for defrauding 50,000 people world wide
- GNR Operation Hermes Phase 2 - Road Safety
- GNR hero saves 61 year old from drowning
- PSP Private Security - Payment of Licensing Fees Changes
- Spanish Police dismantel major Telecommunications Fraud Network
- Judicial Police Arrest 11 Persons for Series of Armed Robberies
- Two persons arrested by Judicial Police for around 30 Armed Robberies
- Fourteen Arrested in an Investigation involving Private Security Companies
- Large increase in migrants detected at Europe's External Borders
- Person Convicted for slanderous denunciation and defamation
- ►June
- SEF - Smart Borders: A project with a future
- Portuguese Government approves a National Strategy for Combatting Terrorism
- PSP agent in Critical Condition following assault by a gang
- Seminar Challenges in Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
- SEF - Provisional detention of suspects of citizenship Fraud
- SEF - Smart Borders: a project with a Future
- 533 Reports of Ticket Fraud relating to Gigs, Concerts and Sporting Events received
- Person to be prosecuted for making false allegations of corruption against GNR on Facebook
- Judicial Police arrest three persons for drug trafficking across Spanish Border
- Portugal's First National Crime Prevention Website launched
- World Economic Forum (WEF) rates Portugal highly in terms of Safety and Security
- GNR dismantle a Romanian criminal network
- Judicial police carries the largest seizure of cocaine ever in the Azores and holds five men – street value around Euros 300 million
- ►May
- President of SEF inspectors association casts doubt on SEF's future
- Large Chinese Money Laundering network dismantled
- Person arrested for sixteen armed bank robberies
- Lisbon Airport - Two persons detained carrying (equivalent) 6 million Euros in cash in suitcases
- Public Statement by PSP Police concerning football violence at Guimarães and Lisbon
- An eight-year-old boy smuggled into Spain from Morocco inside a suitcase
- Local Lodging Seminar a Success
- Sintra – Four arrested for drug trafficking
- Police dismantle criminal group laundering money in Europe and USA
- Interpol issues Global Warrants on 100 corrupt Chinese officials
- ►April
- ►December
- ►2014
- ►December
- GNR Operational activities - Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
- Armed hotel robbery in Albufeira
- PSP arrest four persons for drug trafficking in Olhao
- GNR Almancil arrest a person for burglary
- Former Hong Kong Deputy Leader an a Property Tycoon jailed for corruption
- SEF apprehends foreigner who had escaped from Prison in 2007
- Nine arrested and 90 kgs of Cocaine seized at Lisbon airport
- Minister of Internal Affairs visits GNR Headquarters
- Operation "TIPSOL" ' GNR Drink Drive operation
- Pair sentenced for series of robberies in Albufeira
- Robbery at Euromillions lottery kiosk in Quarteira
- Person arrested for diesel theft in Lagos
- PSP arrest two drug traffickers in Olhao
- Man arrested in Olhao for attempted theft
- DCI Nicola Wall takes over UK investigation in Madeline McCann disappearance
- Portugal ranked 31st out of 175 countries in Transparency International's 2014 Corruption Perception Index
- 292 Internet Domain names seized for selling counterfeit products
- ►November
- Eleven arrested and 20 tons of hashish seized in joint operation between Judicial Police, tax agency Spanish National Police
- GNR Almancil arrest person for pickpocketing
- Tavira - GNR arrest person for drug trafficking
- Socrates charged and remanded in prison custody
- Judicial Police in Portimão arrest person for attempted murder,
- PSP Operation “ARMEX II” results in arrest of 46 persons and seizures of weapons and explosives.
- Russian website capturing images from security video cameras in Portugal properties
- England and Wales police failing to record more than 800,000 offences
- Earlier warnings on Golden Visa corruption ignored
- Lisbon - Person arrested for international drug trafficking - 46 kgs cocaine seized
- National Director of SEF and 10 others detained in "Golden Visa" corruption investigation
- GNR - "Alcohol and Drugs in the School Community" Seminar
- Lagos - Foreigner arrested by PSP following a theft from vehicle.
- Albufeira - person accused of 27 robberies of women and tourists in court
- Global Action against "Dark Markets" on TOR hidden websites.
- Judicial Police seize 2000 kgs of hashish and detain five for drug trafficking
- Judicial police arrest suspect for robbery resulting in death of victim
- GNR Almancil arrest person for drug trafficking
- Judicial police arrest foreigner for drug trafficking
- GNR Operation "Agrisegur"
- Joint Police Operation dismantels major drug network - 20 arrests
- Drug traffickers sentenced in Loule court
- ►October
- "Beret Gang" (gang das boinas) arrested by GNR Faro
- Spanish Police arrest over 50 persons in government involved corruption case
- Search of Sir Cliff Richard's home - Report of the Home affairs Select Committee
- South Yorkshire Police described as “inept” in leaking Sir Cliff Richard search details
- 7th Anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Velsen - GNR representation
- PSP celebrates it's 86th Anniversary with PSP Symphonic Band performance in Faro
- 69th Aniverssary of the Judicial Police
- Judicial Police arrest two men, seize 600 kg of cocaine on sail boat off Sagres
- Latest England Wales Crime survey figures published October 2014 – Overall crime down 16% - sexual offences up 21%
- The National Police arrested a man in Córdoba, Spain for corruption of minors and possession and distribution of child pornography – up to 10,000 victims could be involved
- PSP Agent Graduation Ceremony
- Judicial police arrested foreigner in Lagos area for drug trafficking
- GNR Faro arrest person for trafficking in cannabis flowers
- Judicial Police break up major currency counterfeiting group in northern Portugal
- Explicit images believed sent through Snapchat put online, with threats from hackers to upload more
- Man arrested for rape - Municipality of Loulé.
- Spain - Dog death sparks furor in Ebola case
- Portuguese authorities refuse plane transporting Ebola carrier to land
- Gang behind heroin distribution in Canary Islands and Portugal dismantled
- Judicial Police arrest head of International Prostitution Ring in Boliqueime, Algarve
- ►September
- Loulé - Four detained for drug trafficking
- Castro Marim – Four detained on suspicion of robbery and theft
- Albufeira - British national arrested in connection with thefts in hotels
- Foreigner arrested at Faro airport for possession of prohibited weapons
- New 10 Euro banknote launched
- GNR Operation – Senior Security
- Computer Security Seminars for Algarve Businesses and Residents
- GNR carry out raid at a residence in Ferreiras, Algarve resulting in seizure of drugs and firearms – Jihadist graffiti allegedly found
- Arrest of Gang Leader Fabio Cigano
- Albufeira - GNR arrest two persons for theft after car chase.
- Police dismantle criminal group stealing high performance vehicles
- Portugal participates in international police operation delivering a major blow to organized crime groups
- Computer Security seminars for Algarve Businesses and Residents
- Nine people arrested and 1300 kgs of cocaine seized in joint Spanish police and Judicial Police operation
- Toll management company issues fraud warning
- International Law Enforcement Action Against Fake Medicines
- ►August
- Sir Cliff Richard - Home Affairs Committee to interview Police and BBC on 2nd September
- Albufeira - One dead and another seriously injured in bar incident
- Sir Cliff - The Right to Privacy
- Lagos - Tourists apprehended causing damage/graffiti
- Person in Albufeira night club arrested in possession of firearm
- Judical Police arrest person for allegedly murdering his father in Messines
- Person intercepted by Faro Night Guard in possession of drugs and theft
- The Judicial Police arrest drug trafficker at Faro airport
- NTERPOL- Operation to put brakes on Stolen Vehicle crime
- PSP Speed Check Operations - Algarve - August 2014
- SEF Operation in Olhao aimed at combating the sexual exploration of foreign illegals
- GNR Operation Baco aimed against those driving under the influence of alcohol and psychotropic substances
- Judicial Police arrest group of armed robbers
- Judicial Police arrest foreign national in possession of MDMA, LSD and Hashish
- GNR Loule arrest person in possession of 3900 doses of heroin in Quarteira
- On line holiday home booking scams
- GNR Loulé arrest person for theft from residences - stolen items recovered
- GNR "Operation Welcome"
- ►July
- GNR Albufeira arrest person for drug trafficking and possession of a firearm
- Judicial Police arrest suspects for the crime of drug trafficking in Olhão, Faro and Loulé.
- Viseu - SEF detains foreigner for illegal immigration and pimping
- Spanish law authorities arrest 36 drug traffickers
- Loulé - GNR arrest three persons for theft and drug trafficking
- GNR Albufeira arrest a foreign national arrested for over 10 thefts from hotels.
- Burglary report at Montechoro, Albufeira
- Quarteira - Report of domestic violence results in arms seizure
- Alvor - Man arrested by GNR for drug trafficking
- Unlicensed beach sellers apprehended during operation at Rocha da Baixinha Maccente - Albufeira
- Unlicensed Security Guard arrested by GNR in Lagos
- PSP Faro district apprehend four youths for vandalism of over 100 vehicles
- PSP - Child Safety - Bracelets Scheme
- The Judicial Police participate in an international smuggling operation resulting in the seizure of 32 million cigarettes and 4 tons of tobacco
- Lagos - Three foreigners arrested by PSP for drug trafficking
- Eastern Algarve - Judicial Police arrest suspect for the crime of child sexual abuse
- Europol news - Human trafficking network dismantled in Portugal
- FCO - British Behaviour Abroad Report 2014
- Brits arrested for International drug trafficking
- Quarteira - GNR arrest person for drug trafficking
- Drug arrests in Monchique
- Praia da Rocha - Two Norwegians arrested following disturbance
- Albufeira - Canadian arrested with loaded pistol
- GNR "Operation Moto"
- GNR - Help Prevent Fires Message
- Albufeira - Person arrested for attempting to pass counterfeit currency
- UK – 660 held in child image crackdown
- Marmelete, Monchique – Person arrested from drug trafficking
- 2014 - Decrease in Violent Crime
- Combined GNR and Spanish police operation results in seizure of 1.5 tons of hashish at border
- Couple found shot dead in Belverde, Seixal
- The Judicial Police complete an investigation for corrupt practices related to prescribing complementary therapeutic devices eighty medical defendants
- Britain follows US in banning powerless electronic devices from flights
- Global dug use stable says UNODC World Drug Report 2014
- PSP arrest two persons for residential robberies with use of a firearm.
- Fraudsters launch mass phishing attack against online dating members
- One in 10 consumer problems on eBay are scams, says Citizens Advice
- Castro Marim - Three person caught breaking into a restauant
- Loulé – GNR arrest two persons for drug trafficking
- ►June
- The Judicial Police conduct a major operation to combat trafficking in human beings for labour exploitation
- The Judicial Police arrest a person a man for money laundering from transnational business.
- The Judicial Police conduct an operation aimed at the illegal activity of a private security company, and arrest two of its leaders
- GNR arrest two persons arrested for robbery in Vilamoura
- GNR Silves arrest person for drug trafficking
- Action against metal theft puts 271 people behind bars
- EUROPOL issues alert over theft of catalytic converters from parked cars
- Albufeira – Quick response by GNR results in the arrest of a burglar
- Four arrested for swindling the Portuguese Health Service
- PSP arrest three for Drug Trafficking in Faro
- Three arrested for Drug Trafficking in Portimão
- Messines and Silves Wildfire Prevention and Environmental Protection Seminars
- Telephone fraud to be aware of
- Navy sailor arrested with 150,000 doses of hashish
- 5000 civilians to be recruited to PSP and GNR
- Worldwide alert - Over 60 million in loses through Gameover Zeus malware attacks
- Albufeira - British woman stabbed - man arrested
- Messines - Two arrested for copper theft
- Lagos - Two women arrested for drug trafficking
- Ferragudo - Two arrested for copper theft
- Full house at Monchique wildfire prevention seminar
- ►May
- Lagos - Two foreigners arrested for drug trafficking
- Algarve - Safe Summer Police reinforcement programme announced
- Algerian robbers appear in Loule Court
- GNR Faro marks World Children's Day - 1st June
- PSP - Public auction of firearms
- Spanish National Police dismantled large drug trafficking organization - Portuguese cooperation
- Monchique Wildfire protection and Environment protection seminar
- EBay advises users to change their passwords after a cyber-attack compromised its systems.
- Lagos - Two arrested by GNR for drug trafficking
- PSP Faro arrest two persons fleeing after a theft
- Quarteira - Night guard apprehends person for metal theft
- Arrests in International Voice-Phishing case
- Almancil - GNR arrest person for drug trafficking
- GNR Tavira arrest seven persons and seize 2044 kgs of hashish.
- Two persons arrested for Robbery
- Portimao - Two persons arrested for drug trafficking.
- 70 year old former Albuferia teacher arrested for international drug trafficking
- Person arrested for Robbery in Albufeira restaurant
- Forthcoming SCA seminars/displays - Forest Fire prevention
- Pickpocket arrested by GNR in Albufeira
- Man stabbed in restaurant in Alcantarilha
- SEF arrest foreigner at Faro airport using a false passportrs
- GNR Olhao arrest person responsible for burglaries
- 103 rd Anniversary of the GNR
- Tourists vote the Algarve a safe destination
- ►April
- Judicial Police arrest man for sexual abuse of 14 year old
- European Police Futsal (football) tournament - Loule
- Portimão - Person arrested for drug trafficking
- Inauguration of the new General Commander of the National Guard (GNR)
- GNR Operation Easter - Results
- PSP Security Operation Easter 2014 - Final results
- GNR Operation "Protect Forest"
- Police in Portugal and Spain conduct joint patrols during Easter period
- Person arrested by PSP for international drug trafficking
- Operation by Judicial Police result in arrest of two people for transnational fraud amounting to EUR 2 million
- Foreigner arrested for robbery to be extradited
- Lagos - PSP arrest three foreigners for drug trafficking
- GNR - Easter Safe Driving Operation
- Almancil - Person arrested for drug trafficking
- GNR investigation series of burglaries in Ferrerias, Albuferira
- Judicial police arrest person for Lagoa murder
- Loulé – Person arrested in connection with 15 burglaries
- Events coming up - Safe Easter Crime Prevention Displays
- Loule - Judicial Police arrest person for aggravated fraud
- UK Metropolitan Police Documents allege police corruption in former Flying Squad
- Half a million euro heroine drug seizure and fours arrests by PSP in Loures
- PSP Arrest two persons on suspicion of more than 30 burglaries and scams
- Albufeira – Person arrested for car jacking
- Portimão – Person arrested by GNR Silves for drug trafficking
- Crime in the Algarve lowest since 2001
- Judicial police arrest seven for qualified tax fraud, corruption, money laundering and receiving crimes
- Albufeira – GNR arrest two persons for theft of clothing
- ►March
- Spanish couple arrested in Loule for drug trafficking
- Major Judicial Police Operation against Organized Drug Trafficking
- National GNR Railway Operation results in arrest of drug trafficker in Tunes
- Vila Real de Santo António - Vessel seized with 500 kgs of hashish on board
- Lousa - Judicial Police pass robbery cases involving two PSP agents to Public Prosecutor
- Castro Marim- Youth aged 17 years apprehended for theft of mopeds
- You've got Cancer hoax email warning
- PSP Press Release – Stripper wearing PSP uniform - not a police officer
- Loulé - Person arrested for Possession of illegal weapons and drug trafficking
- GNR Tavira arrest four in major drug trafficking operation
- Portimão - Person arrested for drug trafficking
- Lagoa - Man arrested for drug trafficking
- Loule - Man arrested for operating illegal scrapyard
- Portimao - Person arrested for child abuse and possession of weapons
- SEF and SCA sign Protocol
- ►February
- Lagoa - Person arrested for sexual abuse of a minor
- PSP Faro District -Sign language training in English and German for PSP officers
- Two arrested in Vila do Bispo for cannabis cultivation
- Robbery at Finances Department Office Loulé by masked men
- Portimão - Persons arrested for burglary
- European Safer Internet Day - 11th February
- GNR Enforcement operation concerning dangerous dogs
- Barclays Bank Customer's Details Stolen and Sold
- Albufeira - Four arrested for drug trafficking
- Judicial Police arrest person for armed robbery in Albufeira
- Arrests for Major Drug Trafficking case - Tavira
- GNR Safe Residence Programme Celebrates its 4th Anniversary
- ►January
- PSP Portimão arrest two for theft from properties
- Woman arrested by GNR Loulé for drug trafficking
- Gang arrested for over 50 tobacco thefts
- GNR Vila do Bispo make arrests for metal theft
- PSP Portimao arrest person for thefts
- Person arrested in connection with fatal traffic accident
- Judicial Police arrest man for drug trafficking in Portimão
- PSP arrest two foreign nationals for using counterfeit bank notes
- PSP Tavira detain person for possession of prohibited weapon.
- Wanted British National arrested at Faro Airport.
- Destruction of Weapons by the PSP
- Polícia Judiciária arrest taxi driver for shooting a juvenile age 17 in Albufeira
- PSP dismantle drug trafficking network in Lisbon with arrest of 22 persons
- ►December
- ►2013